Quoted: things magazine was originally founded in 1994 by a group of writers and historians based at the Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art in the belief that objects can open up new ways of understanding the world.

Quoted: things has built a reputation as a home for new writing – essays, reviews, short stories and poems – about objects and their meanings. The website contains a weblog, photography galleries, special projects, searchable archives and the occasional on-line only article.

Happy birthday Whitman!

Quoted: Of the day the original daguerreotype was taken, Whitman remembered, "I was sauntering along the street: the day was hot: I was dressed just as you see me there. A friend of mine—Gabriel Harrison (you know him? ah! yes!—he has always been a good friend!)—stood at the door of his place looking at the passers-by. He cried out to me at once: 'Old man!—old man!—come here: come right up stairs with me this minute'—and when he noticed that I hesitated cried still more emphatically...

33rd annual Buenos Aires International Book Fair

Quoted: For all those who love to read, who enjoy getting lost in crowds, who are intrigued by the idea of a powerful espresso after midnight, who loathe being rushed, who get mildly depressed when reading yet another article prophesizing a straight-to-hell future for the printed word -- this is the time and the place for you...

Impressive online magazine. All content is available for free, and it's very easy to navigate. Sections include interviews, poetry, fiction, arts/photography, and links.

This is a great collection of the poems sent out by Knopf for their poem-a-day series. To have a poem and accompanying info e-mailed to you each day in April, here is the link: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry/index.pperl

Quoted: In April 2006, Knopf introduced the Poem-a-Day podcast, which featured poets including Kevin Young and James Merrill reading their own poems, as well as Knopf authors such as Joan Didion and Toni Morrison reading work by their favorite poets.

I don't remember reading anything by Flannery O'Connor, but this article and photo tour has inspired me to find something soon.

Quoted: A visit to the author’s homeland in rural Georgia is a literary pilgrimage that treads lightly between the fictional and the real.