The Transom
August 10th, 2011




Galley Friend Ben Domenech has started a little daily e-newsletter. It’s called the Transom and I can’t recommend it highly enough. (You can sign up for it here.) It’s like an old-school version of James Taranto’s Best of the Web, though (and this isn’t a knock on Taranto, who’s great) with a slightly broader cast. As a for instance, today’s Transom both catches you up on the Wisconsin recall and points to this sensational FT Magazine piece on the theft of the Mona Lisa.

This is one of the few things on the internet that’s absolutely worth your valuable time.

  1. Laurel Van Driest August 10, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    Thanks. Done. Enjoyed the FT piece; for additional material read RA Scotti’s Vanished Smile – The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa (didn’t see it referenced in the FT piece, ‘tho I may have missed it): http://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Smile-Mysterious-Theft-Vintage/dp/0307278387/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312995303&sr=1-1

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  2. Ben D August 10, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Thank you, Jon.

    And Laurel, that’s an excellent recommendation – in fact, I’ll share it with others tomorrow.

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