- Zadie Smith, charged with judging the Willisden Herald International Short Story Prize, instead decided nobody’s fiction was good enough, so the competition was called off.
- President Bush announced plans to freeze funding for school libraries, right around the time he thought it would be a good idea to propose cutting RIF’s budget by $25 million
- We brought happiness seekers Beth Lisick and Gretchen Rubin together for an interview, and we learned a lot from clutter expert Peter Walsh.
- We also got some health tips that bear repeating: stop sitting at your desk all day, and stop holding your breath in front of the computer.