Things Noted Here and There

Book Porn: D,"Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries," Curious Expeditions, 6 September. See also:"Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut," The Nonist, 16 August 2003; Sheila O'Malley,"Heart-Achey Beauty of Libraries," The Sheila Variations, 20 December 2006; and, of course, Rachel's"Book Porn #1-18," a historian's craft, 3 March-28 August. Gad. I need a cold shower after all that.

In response to Bill Turkel's"A Plea for Concept Projects," Digital History Hacks, 1 September, and Sage Ross's"What are historians good for," Revise & Dissent, 5 September, Dave Davisson is putting together"Notes Toward Sustainable History," Patahistory, 8 September.

Regis Debray,"Socialism: A Life Cycle," New Left Review, July/August, tracks"the ‘three estates' of logosphere, graphosphere, videosphere—the word, the press, the screen."

Jeffrey Rosen,"Conscience of a Conservative," NYT, 9 September, is a portrait of Jack Goldsmith, an attorney who resigned from the Bush administration in protest of its terror memos. Goldsmith's book, The Terror Presidency, has just been published.