The British Libary (above) can’t accommodate a copy of every item published in the UK, but a 1911 copyright law requires it to do just that. Enter the book warehouse, an “epic grey corrugated temple” designed to house the books nobody’s reading. Last year the Library of Congress heralded the project and its “radical implications as a blueprint for future . . .
At one time my maternal grandfather was a garment cutter. Later he had an auto repair shop. It’s unclear what all happened during the intervening years of carousing and various jobs and one near-fatal shooting, but he wound up in Phoenix, Arizona, where he became — of course — a successful real estate agent. According to my mom’s note, this . . .
Tom Toles’ Washington Post editorial cartoon, Obama’s Eating of Vegetables Fuels Rumors About Him, satirizes Wednesday’s inane front-page Washington Post story, Foes Use Obama’s Muslim Ties to Fuel Rumors About Him.
“When I think about it,” Elizabeth Bishop once wrote to James Merrill, “it seems to me I’ve rarely written anything of value at the desk or in the room where I was supposed to be doing it — it’s always in someone else’s house, or in a bar, or standing up in the kitchen in the middle of the night. . . .
Someone has been spray-painting Thomas Pynchon’s muted trumpet around the UC Santa Barbara campus.