The Open Road Blog

This photograph shows author Iris Murdoch with her husband John Bayley. The two married in 1956, two years after the publication of Murdoch’s first novel Under the Net, about a struggling young writer in London. The American Modern Library would later select this title as one of the one hundred best English-language novels of the twentieth century, and Time magazine would list it as among the twenty-five best novels since 1923.

Murdoch and Bayley met at Oxford University, where Murdoch studied classics, ancient history, and philosophy, and where she later lectured in philosophy for fifteen years. Bayley was also ...

Via Tech Crunch: "Twitter has just rolled out a nifty little feature. Now on anyone’s profile, when you click on the “Following” link, you’ll be able to see exactly how they see Twitter. In other words, you can see the same timeline of tweets that they see when they’re looking at their main feed." Frankly, not sure how much I like this!—Libby

It's always an exciting moment to stumble across a book that makes you cry, makes you think, or makes you fall over with laughter. I lucked out this week and found a humor book that made me do all three! ...