Good advice

Today's Google Doodle was a fitting tribute now that we more or less all carry HITCHHIKER'S GUIDES around with us.

Likes big books, cannot lie

Great news for biography fans: Robert Caro's fourth Lyndon B. Johnson volume, THE PASSAGE OF POWER, is due out next May, nine years after MASTER OF THE SENATE. Less great news: It only covers up to 1964 (vice-presidential campaign to post-JFK assassination), meaning his putative LBJ trilogy will not be completed until Volume 5.