It’s Time for Guitar Nights in Corsica

If you’re tired of music festivals that require you to endure muddy mosh pits, stifling tents and rapaciously priced bottles of water, consider an escape to the plunging cliffs, turquoise waters and weathered citadels of Corsica. Every year, amid this Mediterranean island’s gorgeous surroundings, musicians gather under the stars for Les Nuits de la Guitare

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Books: View from the Gutter

FRED BASON'S DIARY —Edited by Nicolas Bentley—British Book Centre .Out of the murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a “bloody bookworm” named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his own library, consisting of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Liza of Lambeth, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pears' Cyclopdia, the 1881 volume of the Strand magazine, Wild Wales and Two Years Before the Mast

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Books: Your Obt. Servt.

*Harbert, Mich., is a crossroads town about 60 miles east of Chicago across the lake. To get there you have to drive through the gritty desolation of South Chicago, through Gary, where in autumn the blast furnaces at night make a glowering sheet lightning, through the smoke of Michigan City and into clean air again, along Lake Michigan behind some of the biggest sand dunes in the world.

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