Stompin’ Tom Connors is gone and it’s sad. Here’s Michael Barclay’s wonderful, moving tribute to the man. And one from Kate Beaton for good measure.
Apparently Pablo Neruda’s remains are going to be exhumed next month, in an effort to re-investigate the cause his death.
While Anna Holmes at the New Yorker exhorts you to just actually read Sheryl Sandberg’s controversial new book, Lean In, I’d much much rather read TNR’s Noreen Malone decimating the book mostly on the sheer volume of its acknowledgement section. Also, there’s some interesting stuff in that TNR link about acknowledgements in general, including Paris Review editor Lorin Stein’s historical observations on the whole sorry state of those extra pages: “You don’t see Joseph Conrad thanking Ford Madox Ford, or Virginia Woolf giving shout-outs to Leonard, Lytton, Vanessa, Clive, and Vita.”
