For some unknown reason, I kept putting down Neil Gaiman’s OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE after 10 pages. And then I brought it with me on a flight to San Francisco and couldn’t put it down. It’s AMAZING. As the New York Times said, “His mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time...

“Go to the ugliest or most forlorn place you know — a drugstore parking lot, the front porch of a crack house, a toxic waste dump, or the place that symbolizes your secret shame — and build a shrine devoted to beauty, truth, and love. Here are some suggestions about what to put in your sh...