Martha Rebecca Johnston, my grandmother, was born April 23, 1905. She died nine years ago, on May 6, 1998. This post originally included an anecdote about her dream of heaven, which she wasn’t too crazy about, and her funeral, and now you can read it at the end of “My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a . . .
Saturday, in LA: “Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles: In A Lonely Place” tour goes to spots where Chandler’s life and fiction meet.
The latest installment of Juan Santapau’s The Secret Knots — comics about what we do without knowing why — is “Lewis Carroll’s Nightmare.” (Via.)
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, Robert Musil’s last pre-death volume, is one of the titles featured in this year’s Reading the World. (Via.)
Researching his forthcoming book on the tombs of Christ’s apostles has led Tom Bissell to some remote and unexpected places.