State book of Massachusetts?
Some schoolkids petitioned their representative to declare Moby-Dick Massachusetts’ state book. The Boston Globe suggests other possibilities.
Some schoolkids petitioned their representative to declare Moby-Dick Massachusetts’ state book. The Boston Globe suggests other possibilities.
In Zadie Smith’s “Hanwell Senior,” published in The New Yorker this week, a father gives his young son some penny bangers and then disappears.
Postal regulators have accepted a Time Warner proposal that would increase the burden on indie publishers while cutting costs for large magazines. (Via.)
Zone Johnston, my granny’s father, was always dragging his wife and kids to carpentry jobs throughout Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, and beyond, and then abandoning them in favor of a new pretty face. According to my mom, “[his wife’s] people would have to come to where they were and take them home until Zone finished his work and wandered back . . .
The New York Public Library’s “From Revolution to Republic in Prints and Drawings” exhibition runs through July 7. There you can see “An Exact View of the Late Battle of Charlestown, June 17, 1775,” contemplate “The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street” (above), enjoy the political cartoons of the day, and gaze at . . .