http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/arts/music/michael-schur-directs-decemberists-video.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB

War and Peace things

New York Review of Books review of the translation we're reading.

here

the map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia

here

The Pale King

Caroline has received her copy in the mail. Available for pre-order (and I guess now-shipping) at Amazon.

DFW,4EVA

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/03/07/110307fi_fiction_wallace

DFW in the NYR of B

a review of the recent DFW book to get us excited about the new book.

and

We gonna continue reading? Perhaps in the fall? Mann? Pynchon?

OR

Perhaps we can change our focus to epics of different sorts?

Our opera.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126863812

and also Linda Holmes reads MD in a book club.

http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=126677886

In Color

Suprising amount of DFW footage on YouTube. 10 Part interview starting here.