Thursday, October 19, 2006

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to October 19. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni MorrisonA remark to students, repeated in talks from the early 1980s · c. 1981

In 2007 this day opens on Langston Hughes.

Arrow keys turn the day. S keeps the line. Slash focuses search.

October 19 · Quotationary