33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer [courtesy THE ALTUCHER CONFIDENTIAL]
[Book Nerd Links] Writing Tips from James Altucher
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Daily Diversion #156: Feeling Dangerous
The Danger Girl
“I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.”-Gloria Swanson
[Book Nerd News] Poet Seamus Heaney is Dead!
Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 74 [courtesy PEOPLE]
Seamus Heaney Dead: Irish Nobel-Winning Poet Dies in Dublin [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Inspiration Board: 29th August 2013
Umbrellas in the Rain, 1899, Maurice Prendergast
Marilyn Monroe, 1962, by George Barris
John Barrymore as Hamlet, 1922
The Solemn Land, James E. H. MacDonald, 1921
Joe Strummer
Beach Scene with Boats by Maurice Prendergast
William Butler Yeats, 1920
Gene Kelly, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 1949
Hietaniemi Beach, 1921
Actress Kay Laurell and friend, 1922
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRgCJYwRmdw
Writers in Art: Leo Tolstoy
Under a Lamp (Lev Tolstoy in the Family Circle) by Leonid Pasternak, 1902.
Under a Lamp by Leonid Pasternak, 1902
[Book Nerd Links] Illustrations of Literary Heroines
9 of Literature’s Most Beloved Heroines [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Do you have a favourite?
Arthur Miller Quote
Voices from the Grave #76: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe Discuss Their Upcoming Nuptials
Great intellectual writers have personal lives, too.
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Bret Harte/Truman Capote Mashup
Bret Harte was born on 8/25/1836.
Bret Harte, 1862.
“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’/More sad are these we daily see: ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”-Bret Harte
Truman Capote died on 8/25/1984.
Truman Capote, 1959, by Roger Higgins.
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”-Truman Capote
[Book Nerd Links] H.P. Lovecraft
Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft’s Birthday With 20 of His Creepiest Book Covers [courtesy FLAVORWIRE]
At the Mountains of Madness. Courtesy Flavorwire.
NecronomiCon To Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 