Miscellaneous Items

In case you have a textbook that needs a disclaimer sticker. (via Bookslut) The Lost Books Club (via Maude Newton) is on a mission "To help preserve, introduce, and pass on to future generations, America’s cultural heritage by making available to the public hard-to-find, unavailable, out-of-print, or otherwise forgotten cultural works, particularly literary works; to arrange for the publication and presentation of the works, and entertainment based on such works; to organize programs, seminars, and conferences with respect to such works; and to promote and encourage the public interest in, appreciation of, and support for such work." They don't have much at the moment, but they are working on it, and they are looking for suggestions. And the Christion Science Monitor has their list of notable fiction and nonfiction for 2004.