Just a passing thought: Does the current popular design element of including photographs of headless torsos (mostly of women) on book covers mean anything? As someone who used to work as a book cover designer, I can almost hear the
State of the State
Governor John Lynch gave his State of the State speech yesterday. Listen or read a transcript on nhpr.
Name-brand fiction and beyond
New books this week include The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun; Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet, featuring time-traveling physicists Fermi, Szilard, and Oppenheimer; Mothers and Other Monsters: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh; The