“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”-Gertrude Stein
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Daily Diversion #191: A Very Fashionable Dog
Dunc keeping warm on a cold, cold night.
Dunc, being adorable.
27 January 1832: Welcome to the World, Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was born on 27 January 1832.
Lewis Carroll, 1863. We probably don’t want to know what he was thinking.
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
A Mad Tea-Party by Sir John Tenniel.
Images of Renowned Authors as Children, Part One
Everyone was a child once, even serious wordsmiths. Let’s get started:
A pouty Eugene O’Neill:
Eugene O’Neill, 1892-1894.
Daily Diversion #190: A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
A Winter Sunset’s Dying Light
Off Topic Post: Happy Birthday, Paul Newman!
Happy birthday to my lifelong favourite actor, Paul Newman! He would have been eighty-nine today.
Paul Newman in 1954.
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”-Paul Newman
What is your number one Paul Newman flick?
Leo Tolstoy Quote
Leo Tolstoy Quote
A Trio of Literary Birthdays: Burns, Maugham, Woolf
Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759.
Robert Burns
“Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!”-Robert Burns
W. Somerset Maugham was born 25 January 1874.
W. Somerset Maugham
“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”-W. Somerset Maugham
Virginia Woolf was born on 25 January 1882.
Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”-Virginia Woolf
Born 152 Years Ago Today: Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born on 24 January 1862. Here she is, through the years:
Edith Wharton by Edward Harrison May, 1870
Edith Wharton by E.F. Cooper, circa 1889
Edith Wharton, 1907
Edith Wharton, 1915
Edith Wharton, pre-1919
[Book Nerd Art] Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age, 1921
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922. Artwork: John Held, Jr.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 