Why not kick off 2012 with former poet laureate W. S. Merwin’s poem, “To the New Year“?
“so this is the sound of you”
Dispatches from the RNC in Tampa
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Rabbit, Realtor
For the low, low price of a quarter of a million dollars, John Updike's boyhood home could be yours! (via)
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That’s Not Leather
In horrifying book news, the binding of one of Harvard College Library's books has been confirmed to be human skin.
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Reel Art
"'A good projectionist should be invisible,' he says, his small rectangular glasses steadied on his forehead. 'No one should be able to tell you’re in the booth changing the reels.'” A look at the hidden process of reel-to-reel cinema.
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