Friday's Notes

Michael Silk,"W. B. Yeats and King Oedipus," TLS, 3 March, reviews Jared Curtis, ed., Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: Manuscript materials by W. B. Yeats.

Seth Lerer,"What Lewis Carroll Taught Us," Slate, 4 March, reviews Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll.

Janet Maslin,"Stand by Your Singer and Her Art," NYT, 3 March, reviews Jimmy McDonough's Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen.

Meanwhile, over here on the So What Are You Doin' About It? Corner:

At Citizen of Somewhere Else, SUNY, Fredonia's Bruce Simon has launched a conversation about public education and the New York state budget crisis. He invites you to join the discussion.

Yesterday, our former colleague, Jeff Vanke, announced his candidacy for Congress. He will be the Center Party's candidate in Virginia's sixth congressional district, which runs from Roanoke and Lynchburg in the south up the Shenandoah Valley and along the West Virginia line to north of Harrisonburg. Jeff's doctorate in history is from Harvard. He formerly taught at Guilford College and is Secretary/Treasurer of The Historical Society. You can find his platform and spreadsheet for a balanced federal budget going forward from 2014 at JeffVanke.com.