Been meaning to pick this book up: WSJ gives Forrest McDonald's autobiography a ringing review. Put it on your list.

A lost medieval city of nearly 400 buildings has been unearthed in Monmouthshire, Wales, perhaps one of the region's largest cities in the 13th century.

Call the press: couples won't get married in this modernist church because it is ugly. Imagine that.

What is the world coming to? C-SPAN is cancelling "Booknotes." Our little bright corner of literacy and civilization just dimmed a bit.