The Paris Review has a new series called "The Culture Diaries" slugged "A week in one reader's life," stuffed with the kind of detail that might be boring if it weren't so exquisite. The entries by litblog pioneer Maud Newton alone make me want to consciously live a more literary life -- and also to be Maud Newton, although it's a little late to go back and be born a Southern brunette, to begin with.