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The American Library Association is meeting, and tweeting, in Chicago. A report: "The nearly week-long librarian meet-up, which began July 9, delivers 'over 300 educational programs' to ...

Not long ago I posted a link here to my piece about Margo Jefferson's On Michael Jackson, from early 2006 -- which, to be honest, I barely remembered reading let alone reviewing, though that says ...

Recent news reminds me of a couple of items that are now topical again. One is a piece on Michael Jackson from early 2006. The other, from December, is a column on a book called The Art of the ...

Vivian Gornick's most recent collection of essays, published by MIT Press, is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards. My short piece on it ran last month in The Barnes & Noble ...

Liverpool Hope University is now offering -- and before we continue with this sentence, let me be clear that I am not making this up -- "a brand new MA in The Beatles, Popular Music and ...

Last month, John Leonard would have turned 70. He was a friend, and an inspiration for Intellectual Affairs; and it has been painful, these past few months, to know he isn't out there reading any ...

Just incorporated a link to it in my column today -- but might as well add it here, too: My short item on Richard Brody's biography of Jean-Luc Godard is now up at the National Book Critics Circle ...

Over at Quick Study, I posted something yesterday about recent zombie-related hijinks taking place in Austin, not too far from the University of Texas campus. Now comes word -- via The Little ...

Ben Alpers charts the rise and fall, from Kennedy through Ford, of "the White House Intellectual-in-Residence" (not that it's existed as a post officially so signified, of course): The ...

At the National Book Critics Circle blog Critical Mass, Eric Banks passes along word that "a reliable source at the Washington Post passes along the scary word that among the budgetary ...