Ooooh, cool.

Bookcrossing. Dear bookish friends (which is nearly all of my friends to one degree or another), this looks fun. This looks really fun. I ganked it off of an email from Jasmine (aka Red Lotus) who is so cool she has it in her sig-file. Anyway, just if you didn't already know.

Update: still reading, myself and a few last dribbles of Stein Crit. Good news: I can now teach a really groovy graduate course on Stein. Which, given Stein's own interdisciplinarity, would be soooooooo neat.

Three more presses said no-thanks. One rather flatly, almost as if I had farted in their offices. Two with similar encouragement as from the rejection below. As several of you have pointed out to me: lots of really good projects get lots of rejections on their way to massive cultural influence. (oh, no, sorry, i mean serious academic import ;-) So, thanks for the reminder. And as one of you pointed wisely out, getting all four of those rejections at once means only one bottle of wine to get over it. ;-) ---- Also, I've learned that this review process thingy takes about a month to six weeks, which lets me sort of 'schedule' the rest of my work. So, good there.