Marginalia: A Different Stripe

As Abbeville  website recommendations go, this one’s a gimme. While most blogs over the past two weeks have featured posts called something like ”OMG Sarah Palin Tina Fey Wall Street Worldwide Crisis!!! ROFL,” A Different Stripe , a literary blog from the good folks at the New York Review of Books , has given us the post titles ”Henry James and the Loquacity of Incomprehension” and, more poignant still, “Remember Angus Wilson?” I really think we need say no more. This is our kind of blog and we suspect it’ll be yours, too. Bonus: their blogroll includes some gems that we’ve never seen linked to elsewhere, including Forgotten Classics , Outmoded Authors , and (title of the day!)  Steamboats Are Ruining Everything . If the blogosphere ever suddenly morphs into a rarefied haven of aesthetic discernment and intellectual curiosity, we’ll have these sites, in large part, to thank.        ...