File under: name for future rock band

Not that I have any musical talent whatsoever. But just in case ...

This afternoon I finished an advance reader's copy of Tom Bissell's The Father of All Things. It was an interesting mix of memoir, travelogue, and history of the Vietnam War. The history part was a bit dense sometimes (my knowledge of the whole conflict is sadly sparse, but I had a hard time slogging through some of the passages about events and people I was genuinely interested in learning about), but I enjoyed the book on the whole.

However, I got a tremendous kick out of one detail left unfinished by the publisher (my copy was just galley proofs after all): at the top of all of the right-hand pages of the final section of the book were the words "Content-Driven Running Head." I cannot overemphasize how much I like that phrase.