Wes Phillips

Well, Wired tackles 40 of 'em. The other two are up to us.

Evan Thomas and Jeffrey T. Richelson have written books that chart the CIA's legacy of arrogant wrongheadedness.

OMG, there's a Dumas novel I haven't read? (A Dumas novel I haven't even heard of?)

What a combination, as Forums participant jazzfan would say. I just discovered Destination: OUT, a website that posts MP3s of out of print jazz discs. Lots of good stuff there. Play nice.

I was desperately cruising the web looking for a final post for the day when Jon Iverson sent this tea partay.

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The list of poetry editors with whom I am not familiar is not a short one, but until I read this appreciation of Al Alvarez in The Scotsman, I only knew his name from my tattered copy of The New Poetry—a book that lived on the transmission hump of my 'lime green 69 Plymouth Valiant and got quite a workout as I waited (endlessly) for my waitress girlfriend to get off shift at the IHOP.

The first time I met PSB's Paul Barton, he mentioned that his love of music had been kindled by, among other things, his father building him a violin when he needed a better instrument in order to become a better player.