Throwback Thursday: 1930s Cheever Edition

The new media revolution has massacred the book review sections at many national newspapers, but it’s been just as unkind to movie reviewers.  At his  Salt Lake Tribune blog, Movie Cricket, SLT film critic Sean P. Means keeps a list of all of the movie reviewers who’ve gotten the axe.

With a huge winter storm bearing down on the East Coast, the Hopkinton library in Massachusetts did the only sensible thing: they erected a sign extolling the virtues of curling up with a book. What makes theirs unique is that, unlike many of their peers, they found a way to avoid the “warm yourself up” cliché. (Previously spotted on Reddit: “What are some good books to read [in jail?]”)

Nicholas Dames is a wonderful writer, and I suggest you read his essay on the “crisis” in the Humanities.