That looks excellent...pretty much any book about Shakespeare makes me salivate though.
Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I got Shakespeare After All.
Wow, that looks like a gem and what a good price. Or, alternatively, what WDC said.
So long as it doesn't make me feel like I'm at work, I'll enjoy it.
I read Biohazard on the plane last night. It's a nonfiction book by a former Soviet bioweapons scientist named Ken Alibek (actually Kan Alibekov), who was possibly the highest-ranking Kazakh in the Soviet military. Anyway, he defected to the US in about 92 and wrote this fascinating history of his involvement with the Soviet bioweapons industry and his experience with it. What I found most interesting is that the USSR was absolutely convinced the US had an ongoing bioweapons program, and their program was intended to counter ours. Alibek finally left when he became convinced that this was untrue, after a tour of US sites in 1991.
It's an easy read -- I read the whole thing on the plane last night -- and rather unsettling, because Alibek isn't convinced the threat of bioweapons is gone even if the Soviet union is. Fascinating stuff.
Holy cow.
Wow, that's a blow to the literary world.
Very sad news. That obituary is very strange though--the precis of Notes on Camp is dreadful, and as for 'In conversation, she comfortably used words such as "polyphonic" and "surreptitiously."'--um, who doesn't?
I haven't gotten a lot of use out of "dramaturg" recently.
I don't know that there's actually a need to use "polyphonic" when speaking, but "surreptitiously?" C'mon. Not big on "dramaturg" but I do like "anthropomorphize."