"As birds to hatch their young do sit in spring, / The ages do their broods of poets bring"

Three reading links:

Sales at independent bookstores in the USA rose 8% between 2011 and 2012. Content warning: bad Cretaceous extinction metaphor. (via)

What happens when Amish women read Amish romances, all of which are by English (non-Amish) writers of evangelical Christian romances. (via)

A rap lyrics site field-strips T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" to demonstrate how each phrase and allusion works -- click anywhere for commentary (alas the stuff does thin out as the poem goes on). (via)

---L.