Someone tell me how I can get this moved to my front yard.
Mark Twain does not like proofreaders. And he doesn’t like them hilariously.
This is a neat discussion of Chuck Berry as poet. The writer contrasts his lyrics nicely with some rather maudlin U2 ramblings.
Heh heh. Things you don’t want to read at the beach.
This a very neat museum dedicated to John Steinbeck. If I ever make it out to California again, I’ll have to visit it.
I am always a sucker for alternative book covers.
A while ago, I linked a ranking of Jane Austen novels. Now it’s time for the Brontë’s, of whose work, I confess, I have not read a word.


Mark Twain disliked James Fenimore Cooper even more than proofreaders, and even more hilariously in Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences! One of the funniest essays ever written and a decent guide for aspiring writers by telling them what not to do.