How Appealing (my latest addiction) posts an interview with a Federal Judge. And on Thursday, The University of Chicago Law School is hosting a clerkship ethics panel. My father suggests that otherwise reasonable people can commit some pretty serious errors (and lose their jobs) if they don't know a few basic things. Now if I can just get one of my friends elected senator, my trajectory to the federal bench will be underway . . . .

Josh Chavetz recommends The Club Dumas, and rightly so. It's nice to see brilliant yet obscure things recommended by the relatively popular. What's next, Syrup?

That said, while I really adore the Club Dumas, and it has two of my favorite characters in any book, Reverte is no Eco. The book is a little lighter, much faster, but a little less satisfying at the end than, say, The Name of the Rose. The book jacket proclaims (accurately) that it's "Beach Reading for the Intellectual."