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Typically, this blog is about books and medievalism. Lately, it’s been taken over by gargoyles. Today, I offer only these diversionary links.
With all the snow we’ve gotten lately, one must learn how to distinguish a yeti from a wendigo.
At The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Thomas H. Benton” follows up his previous jeremiads about grad school with “The Big Lie About ‘The Life of the Mind.'”
Of course, you can show off your humanities chops by writing an online serial epic in verse.
I recently chatted about writing and translation with the good folks at Medievalists.net.
In Maryland, they’re preserving video-game code for posterity.
Jason Fisher has bad news about the publication of Tolkien’s translation of The Book of Jonah.
If you live near Highland Park, N.J., drop by Nighthawk Books, an ambitious venture by friend-of-this-blog Steven Hart.
Finally, here’s a number few have seen since 1980: writer, actor, and jolly Irish polymath Malachy McCourt backs up Christine Ebersole as she sings the most average love song in the world.
Quid Plura? 