““You’re just lucky,” she joked, “that it didn’t send your copy of Best Torture Clubs of the Northeast or How to Care for your Rubber Masks.”” — There appear to be some glitches in e-book lending.
Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy has a great write-up of a conversation between Susan Meiselas and William T. Vollman about the power of photography.
Poems from the Wisconsin protests (via)
From Detroit, “this is what happens when libraries die.” (via)
On routing for March Madness teams because of the quality of the schools’ literary journals.
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Photographs from Twain Library. It would take the whole internet to describe the degradation, the sinking feeling under your heart, because the eyes are open as wide as they can go, and still can’t take it in. Can we divert power from Alaska, draw funds from gold mining operations, ask the Chinese Government for help? What can be done? Where does one person start? My laces are drawn, but after that article, I have little will for much else than emptying my stomach on the lawn (was always a sickly kid).
Jeffrey, I’m with you on that. Totally devastating.
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