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Ig Nobel Ceremony 2003 Details

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Mark Haddon. Only a matter of a few hours to read, but lovely and touching (and quirky and suprising and interesting).

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Knitter’s Symbols Fonts by David Xenakis are totally cool.

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Donald Spoto. Very interesting to read a current biography of St. Francis. The book is a little odd–Spoto capitalizes all the references to God (Who created us, Who sustains us, etc.) and he also has these little interludes where he theologizes under the guise of suggesting things like “What kind of a God did Francis [...]

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Christian Century reports on page 7 of its Sept. 20, 2003, issue on an editorial from the August 16 Los Angeles Times:
The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church’s founder, [Henry VIII], and his wife Catherine of Aragon, his wife Anne Boleyn, [...]

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American Library Association | Banned Books Week

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Robert Jordan. Book Ten of the series. This one is better than the last few. There are some nice plot twists, and amazingly enough there’s even some character development. I’m once again looking forward to reading the next one.

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Martin runs the Nonviolence Web and works for Friends General Conference. I originally met him through my friend Barbara and New Society Publishers. He has a blog that includes writings on Quakerism. Here’s a great post: The Younger Evangelicals and the Younger Quakers
Unfortunately most Friends in leadership positions don’t really understand the problems facing Quakerism. [...]

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Poets & Writers Magazine has a great article on literary criticism.
Clearly, critics and authors share a deep desire to maintain a culture that values reading and writing. “In the best of all possible worlds,” says Caldwell, “we’re all on the same side–toward the greater good of the novel or the cultural dialogue, or whatever you [...]

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Map it!
Very funny writing from the Boston Phoenix. (That is, if, like the author, you pay attention to where you are, where you came from, and where you’re going.)

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