First, apologies for our extremely light posting this week. We’re all recovering from the cold from hell.
Here’s a literary insult for every occasion. “He is simply a hole in the air” is my personal favorite.
The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer.
The return of Brain, Child: a Connecticut mom was so saddened by the news of the magazine’s closing that she stepped in and bought it. Plus, they will now be featuring two poems per issue.
Billy Connolly thinks Tolkien is “unreadable,” but he promises that the movies will be awesome.
Here’s Faulkner’s brief and hilarious letter of resignation as a University of Mississippi postmaster.

