One Possible Excuse
for the lack of activity here. I've been trying to get some new features launched at that online book review you all love to pieces. For example we now have real archives, and links to articles organized by contributor (here's the page of frequent Quiz-shredder Gavin. Also, a pretty treatment of our past Spotlight reviews, which higlights the nice collages my colleague Bryant puts together for us every week.
Even better, we'll have RSS, Email an Article, and the usual complement of "share this" tools enabled for all of our articles, very soon. Long overdue, but better late, so I hear, than never.
This is as good a time as any to mention a terrific recent piece by sometime quiz-player Shananan. And to highlight one of the first -- and still, to my mind, one of the best -- essays we ran, Tom Carson on Kerouac and Charlie Brown.