MORE NEWS FROM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 4

Daniel Mendelsohn is about to tour to promote his new book The Lost, an exploration of his family's history. Here's Rebecca Goldstein's review from the The New York Observer; here's the William Grimes review from The New York Times. (Thanks, Other Dave, for the "heads up" about that.) And here's Dan Cryer's review from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Daniel's brother (and my ol' classmate) Matt Mendelsohn took the photographs for The Lost. And now he's got a blog, The Dark Slide, that includes a Mendelsohn sibling update and this interesting tale of a camera-friendly Jordanian girl. Here's the blog's inaugural post. Matt has also written some very interesting letters to Jim Romanesko--here's an example.

But it's not all about those Mendelsohns. Earlier this year, Carnival Conspiracy by Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars got an A- from Robert Christgau.

And mark your TV calendars: Felice Farber is due to appear on Wheel of Fortune on October 3!