Al Gore's testimony to Congress about global warming is now available online. [Via Bookslut]
Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a novel which I am constantly championing (preaching to the choir, I know), is still alive in the 2007 Tournament of Books. [Via Maud Newton]
"With about 10,000 visitors each year, the weekend suggests that Tolkien has finally moved beyond geeks." Umm, well, sort of. I mean, Tolkien weekend?
Apparently Britain has only one LGBT bookstore, and it is in danger of going under. This is not good news! [Via Edward Champion]
Hal Duncan points to an essay by Michael Saler entitled "Modernity and Enchantment: A Historiographic Review", which looks like a very interesting read. I don't have time to tackle it tonight, but hope to during the weekend.
Dan Green at The Reading Experience is revisiting the films of Robert Altman, beginning by discussing M*A*S*H and how its techniques forecast the rest of Altman's career: "Altman's style and his unhurried, off-the-cuff mode of storytelling have the effect of almost de-familiarizing the filmgoing experience. We don't expect movies, or at least American movies, to proceed in this way. Where's the melodramatic conflict, the overwrought gestures, the clearly signalled plot twists? Altman's films force our awareness of them as films, or at least enforce our recognition of the formulas employed in most other films, formulas Altman either attacks or ignores."
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