Agreeing with Kari and Camille is alwasy a delight! Not only are my poetry students presently working on an assingment to use music to write this week's poems, but there's some good reading about music in today's NYTimes...If anyone is interested, here'a URL to an essay I published several years ago in _Issues In Writing_ that combines thinking about music, teaching, and even (or of course!) Salinger... http://library.stmarytx.edu/classes/en3300/author/will_hochman.html Coming through the rye, will ps One of today's nytimes music articles may be of interest beyond this "issue" since it's about Alanis Morissette and her new album...(http://wwww.nytimes.com)