Wes Phillips

The Beeb spells out precisely why DRM is anticonsumerhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7136527.stm">anticonsumer;.

The inspirationhttp://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771113…; for Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" died in November.

B. R. Myers didn't like Denis Johnson's National Book Award winning Tree of Smoke muchhttp://www.theatlantic.com:80/doc/200712/vietnam">much;.

Every Tuesday, The Guardian posts John Crace's "Digested Read," which is a parodic review of a book written in the (greatly exaggerated) style of the book itself.

Somebody at The Washington Post had the supremely brilliant idea of having Pulitzer Prize winning literary critic Michael Dirda reviewhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR20071…; The Completely Mad Don Martin.

When Philip Pullman wrote His Dark Materials, he thought he might have written a story that would appeal to a "a few clever kids and a few intelligent adults." The series has been translated into 40 languages and has sold 15 million copies. If he was that wrong about that, he's probably wrong about what it's about, too.

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