• Darwinian publishing and the future of the novel.
• Nicolas Sarkozy as George H.W. Bush in translation.
• Dickens in the details at Downton.
• Thomas Hardy: The Convergence of the Twain.
• Race, writing, and skipping through minefields.

Notes & Comment

• Watching ‘Einstein on the Beach’ through a periscope.
• Marianne Faithfull’s ‘Innocence and Experience’.
• Joseph de Maistre’s ‘different sort of progress’.
• Notes on the complexities of Post-Modernism.
• Postmodernism and history.

Currente Calamo

• Clever! Relevant! Shallow! The stuff of poetry!
• Meet Coco de Mer, potency enhancer.
• Famous last words from publisher Jane Friedman?
• Remember that first marriage? Never happened.
• And this was before the Mayans met Newt Gingrich.