glorious illustrations via @sonia_smith

This looks awesome (via equally awesome #DPLA RA Ben).

Looking forward to exploring this.

Still figuring out how to work this, but loving it already.

$250 USD for the winner, plus runner-up prizes.

The best part of this article: the Venn diagram of Lady Chatterley and Her Lover.

James Joyce's Ulysses as a graphic novel. awesome.

If you read one story this month, this should be it.

"to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written" Way cool.

Read and loved Hemon's "The Question of Bruno" on a train between Sarajevo and Budapest

A good starting place for the 2008 Africa Reading Challenge

Well, everything since February 13. Lots of Africa stuff on the list, plus some modern American fiction.

"And so, with a swift change of garb, Raskol emerges into the night!"

A collection of essays, all 750 words or shorter. My favorite starts, "Tommy Schmidt does not drink milk. He is scrawny and freckled and eight years old to my five. We are in love."