Hang in there, Texas.
Oprah chooses James Frey's A Million Little Pieces for her book club pick. I'm guessing this is the "cool down" after a summer of Faulkner. {Thanks CAAF}
The San Francisco Chronicle discusses the First Amendment Project's auction and mentions a few of the first-round winners.
Newly uncovered documents from a British hospital's archives may reveal Shakespeare's source for Measure for Measure:
Court records held in the Bethlem Royal Hospital archives, in Beckenham, detail an actor's trial for rape in 1602 that may have been immortalised by the bard in his play Measure for Measure, an academic has claimed. Christopher Beeston, a contemporary of Shakespeare, appeared before Bridewell Court to deny that he had assaulted a lady called Margaret White, leaving her pregnant.
We are quickly approaching the 50th anniversary of the first public reading of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. Syntax of Things is planning something special for October 7th. In the meantime, Common Ground has a nice article about that famous night at San Francisco's Sixth Gallery.
"In honor of this famous native son, the New Albany Garden Club has created a Faulkner Garden at the Union County Heritage Museum. Weaving quotes from Faulkner's works that describe the flora of Yoknapatawpha, this garden brings the author's words to life. The old-fashioned flowers, the fragrances and the textures of the plants heighten the senses."
Have you been wondering why so many people refuse to evacuate from the coast when a hurricane such as Rita or Katrina is approaching? James Cobb offers one possible explanation:
Southerners aren't the only Americans who are attached to their places, but I agree with Eudora Welty that Southerners see place as the essence of who they are. As the sociologist John Shelton Reed has observed, "Southerners seem more likely than other Americans to think of their region, their states, and their local communities possessively, as `theirs' and therefore `distinct from and preferable to other regions, states, and localities.'"
New York Mag has a long profile of the ubiquitous Anderson Cooper. I see he's a Vandy grad, which reminds me that I should mention that Vanderbilt's football team, long the joke of the SEC, is off to a 3-0 start. If ever you needed a true sign of the apocalypse, there you go.
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