[And all the sweet serenity of books]
I suddenly have a serious urge to go to some bourgeois bookstore like Books-a-Million or Barnes and Noble and just smell the coffee and leaf through volume after volume, admiring the bright, smooth covers and flexing the rigid spines. I think we're in a good time right now for book cover design, and just looking at and smelling lots of books would make me really happy right now.

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Here's a really good interview with Gore Vidal, a vital voice we will probably lose to old age within the next few years. We're in a lot of trouble.