- This tunnel of books is part of an exhibit at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
- Roses for Poe, this year and every year.
- García Márquez “broke the shit barrier” at The New Yorker. (At one time, even butts were verboten there.) Elsewhere, Michael Bierut praises the magazine’s slow design.
- Annie Proulx (“Brokeback Mountain”) appears on Bookworm today. Mary Gaitskill was last week’s guest.
- Filming for the screen adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian will begin later this year.
- TMFTML calls Julian Barnes’ Arthur and George “one of the best books we read last year,” and points to a new website devoted to the novel.
- Even Christopher Hitchens, War on Terror cheerleader, has put down his pom-poms to oppose the warrantless domestic spying authorized by Bush. He’s joined the ACLU lawsuit seeking to shut it down. Apparently the State only knows best for people overseas. (First link via Bookslut.)