Quote of the Week | Hans Christian Andersen

Saturday was a beautiful day in the city, was it not? Snowman-makers and selfie-takers took the pond by storm in Central Park: families set up impromptu photo shoots with wiggly, giggly babies; teenagers face-planted in the snow trying to snowboard on skateboards; a...

Link of the Week | Shelf Awareness

I don’t know about you, but I subscribe to a number of book-related newsletters. I like the way they balance-out the news, university, and bill notifications that ding into my inbox each day. Shelf Awareness is one such newsletter recommended by Professor...

Quote of the Week | C. S. Lewis

On this day in 1962, Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis, and Brian Aldiss gathered in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge to discuss the merits of science fiction. The conversation was recorded and published in 1964 as “The Establishment must die and...

Link of the Week | Caveat

  CAVEAT is “New York’s newest speakeasy stage for playful, intelligent nightlife.” Located at 21 A Clinton St. on the Lower East Side, the bar/salon is a mix of Harvard Club, the esteemed meeting place of Harvard intellectuals, and CBGB, the...