• At Library Thing, a wiki-type group is cataloging the libraries of the great departed, including those of Samuel Johnson (Terry, I’m looking at you), Sylvia Plath, and Walker Percy. (Via The Mumpsimus, who hopes they get to Borges soon.)
• Asheville alert: Junot Díaz reads at Warren Wilson College this Friday, April 11. It’ll be his first appearance since winning the Pulitzer for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I expect it’ll be a MADHOUSE, enough so that it’s been a real war of conscience for me whether to even spread the word (and thus possibly lose a chance at a seat). What you’re seeing here is the triumph of moral fiber.
Also worth a look, this charming interview with Díaz from Newsweek.
Archives for April 9, 2008
TT: The rest is silence (until Thursday)
Haven’t you heard enough from me this week? No? Well, ain’t that too damn bad! I’m going to spend the day writing about Satchmo and playing in the sunshine (such as it is) with Mrs. T.
See you tomorrow.
TT: Almanac
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River