Oh Boy, Another Copy of The Da Vinci Code. Thanks...

It's Umberto Eco's birthday today. His fifth novel, which might well be called The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, will be published in the U.S. this summer. Looking for a link, I've randomly selected a 1997 Wired interview:

"If Margaret Mitchell had been able to surf the Web, she would probably have written Finnegans Wake. And in any case, Joyce was always online. He never came off."