I unearthed this photo (more here) for When I Was A Loser, an anthology to which — are you sitting down? — I contributed an essay. The designers didn’t end up using the evidence we contributors compiled, so I figured I might as well amuse (or horrify) you by posting mine here. Meanwhile, though, I wanted to mention a small . . .
The W.H. Auden Society marks the centenary of the great poet’s birth with a “highly accurate, thoroughly revised” Wikipedia entry.
From the Guardian’s Auden quiz: “Which famous theatre role does every man secretly want to play, according to Auden?”
Sites to visit on a tour of H.P. Lovecraft’s Providence include the John Hay Library’s extensive holdings of Lovecraft manuscripts, letters, and rare editions.
Unbelievable. A federal appeals court rules that the Bush administration has successfully stripped Guantánamo Bay detainees of habeas corpus protections. (See also.)