The New York Public Library is gearing up for some big changes. A confidential source reports that plans are afoot to install a circulating central library in the flagship Fifth Avenue branch, which currently is just a research library and exhibitions site. According to the source, new space beneath Bryant Park, and improvements in digital technology, will enable the NYPL . . .
Mick Stingley sends a David Foster Wallace Valentine. (Past VD posts are here.)
Obama votes against wiretap immunity for telecom companies. Clinton, though in D.C., doesn’t show. (Thanks, GMB.)
Today (2/12) I’m participating in a panel at the O’Reilly Tools for Change in Publishing conference.
After reading Theodora Keogh’s obituary, I had to track down a copy of her out-of-print 1950 novel, The Double Door, which centers in part on a father’s affair with a young man who becomes his daughter’s lover. The Telegraph says the book was “inspired by the Marquis de Cuevas, who ran his own ballet on his wife’s Rockefeller money and . . .