The 7 Best Graphic Adaptations of Classic Literature [courtesy Barnes & Noble]
King Lear for the win, please. Do you have a favourite?
[Book Nerd Links] The 7 Best Graphic Adaptations of Classic Literature
10
Author Archives: maedez
Quote
“I lived to write, and wrote to live.”-Samuel Rogers
Daily Diversion #142: New Studio View
I am not a plant or flower or tree person. I cannot keep green things alive. I’ve no idea what kind of tree this is-I only know that it overlooks my second-story studio and that it is refreshingly lovely.
New studio view.
It’s a beaut, isn’t it?
Take two: first-floor view from the front porch.
The studio will be ready next week. I can hardly wait.
“To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them-the whole leaf and root tribe.”-Henry Ward Beecher
Daily Diversion #141: The Perks of Having a Porch
View from the porch of our new house.
“I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventative of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.”-Mark Twain
Writers in Art: Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie in Fur Cape by the writer’s mother, artist Alice Pike Barney.
Natalie in Fur Cape by Alice Pike Barney
[Intermezzo] Word-Dreams: Vegetable Poems
The best poems are written on the hardy limbs of vegetables. Broccoli, cauliflower, and parsnips. Delicate truths spiral up stems and skip across indentations left by careless produce handlers. Gut-words escape from the penetralia of the mind, to end up nib-scratched on rutted, aromatic skin. Ink soaks into small fleshless creases, and pools at the roots. Cabbage leaves are the superior blotting papers of the Cruciferous world.
James M. Barrie Died 76 Years Ago Today; Here He is Looking Melancholy and Youthful
James M. Barrie, prolific Scottish playwright and the father of Peter Pan and Wendy, died on 19th June 1937. He was 77. Here he is, looking serious and melancholy.
James M. Barrie, 1901
QUOTE: “The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
SOME WORKS: The Little Minister; Quality Street; The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; Alice Sit-by-the-Fire; What Every Woman Knows; A Kiss for Cinderella; The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
A KEEPSAKE:
Crichton’s Island, Postcard Map of James M. Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton by Craig Wetzel. $3.00
[Book Nerd Links] Dysfunctional Families in Literature
Dysfunctional Families in Literature [courtesy Huff Post Books]
What are your thoughts?
Quote
“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”-W.H. Auden
Books in Art: The Yellow Book-Volume 6, 1895
An illustration from The Yellow Book-Volume 6. 1895.
The Yellow Book, 1895.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 