From Billbooard magazine:
Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon died Sunday (Sept. 7) in Los Angeles. He was 56. Zevon was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in August of last year.
One of the earliest singles I ever owned was Zevon’s “Werewolves of London,” which had as a B-side, “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner,” a song based loosely (I think) on the The Song of Roland. As I prep for continuing the medieval portion of my British literature survey class this morning, I’ll be thinking of Zevon.
The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature
Deadline for submissions: 28 May 2004
Coordinators: Seth Lerer (Stanford Univ.) and Leah Price (Harvard Univ.)
Can you tell I’m going back through old emails? This NPR audio is from early August:
The Rare Book School at the University of Virginia is the only one if its kind in the United States. NPR’s Jacki Lyden took a tour of the school’s collection, and talked with elite scholars attending week-long sessions to learn more about the preservation and art of rare books.
An interesting looking “Online Virtual Seminar” on manuscript study hosted by the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services.
Two Three things that recently popped up in my mailbox: