If you ever doubt the value of litblogs, consider this: The last interview Thomas Disch gave can be found as a podcast at the Bat Segundo Show. Meanwhile, it’s been three days since his death and the New York Times apparently still doesn’t list an obituary for him.
I freely admit I have the attention span — oooh, shiny! — of a magpie. After all, that’s why I blog. When I stumble across an infelicitous or puzzling phrase in my reading, it tends to distract me, sometimes stop me cold. Here are some instances from just this morning. Be honest with me — [...]
It happens more often than you might think: I link here at CvilleWords to some interesting site I’ve found in my journeys across the World Wide Web, and within a few hours or days someone leaves a comment letting me know that my latest find was right here in my backyard all the time. Charlottesville [...]