One hundred years ago, the Armory Show in New York shocked the art world with works by Marcel Duchamp and others.




Eighty-five years ago, William Faulkner wrote a children’s book (which is a strange concept).



Fifty years ago, the Nobel Prize committee shocked the literature world by giving the award to John Steinbeck.



A year ago, the owner of the Monkey’s Paw in Toronto thought up the Bibliomat as a way to distribute unneeded books.



And now, China is planning to create a music valley out of whole cloth (well, whole grass, really).



Weird world, isn’t it?