Charing Cross – the fading world of books: An interactive guide to the corner of London once famous for its bookshops. [Guardian]
Book of a Lifetime: Four Quartets, By T S Eliot: To me the poems are essentially abstract meditations on time, faith, war, nature, love, beauty, life, death, redemption. It does not matter who you are; what religion; what creed. Nothing is not there. Everything we might think or feel or question or experience as human beings is somehow evoked and explored. [Independent]
Diane Keaton Memoir Making Rounds: Although Clegg would not comment on money, rumors have surfaced that there’s already a $2 million offer on the table. [PW]
Malcolm MacPherson, Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 65: Malcolm MacPherson, a former foreign correspondent for Newsweek whose novels and nonfiction books dealt with subjects as varied as Disneyland, the Iraq war and special operations in Afghanistan, died on Saturday after collapsing during a party at a friend’s house in Chevy Chase, Md. [NYT]
Portland twins Matthew and Michael Dickman are making their mark in the poetry world [Seattle Post Intelligencer]
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