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Shopping for the Bookworm: A Literary Road Trip #2-The Beat Travels On
In case you are just joining us: A Literary Road Trip #1-A Dream of Travel.
THE BEAT TRAVELS ON
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?-it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Where we are going: Savannah, Georgia.
Why: Because we can.
Beat. The Open Road. Boys Club. Beat the open road, boys club. Make room for the rest of us. Freedom is in our hearts, too. We’ll take your attitude, your verve, your frisson, and carve our own ragged place beneath the wide skies. Word-passionate, flung far, sun-kissed. Beat.
“The only truth is music.”-Jack Kerouac
Vintage Emerson Portable Record Player at The Gray Fedora. $65.00.
[Book Nerd Links] Literary Links for a Spring Day
- Absurd Urban Dictionary Definitions of Famous Authors [courtesy Flavorwire]
- Gorgeous Vintage Children’s Book Covers from All Over the World [courtesy Flavorwire]
- 25 Books Every Writer Should Read [courtesy Flavorwire]
- Research Team Begins Search In Convent For Miguel de Cervantes’s Remains [courtesy Huff Post Books]
- A New Birthday Suit for Bernard [courtesy Work in Progress]
Happy Birthday, Lionel Barrymore: Actor, Artist, Novelist…
…director, composer, screenwriter, and inventor. His novel, Mr. Cantonwine: A Moral Tale, was published in 1953. I read it as a high schooler (in the 1990s). Why, yes, I was that teenager. Here is Mr. Barrymore as a younger man:
Lionel Barrymore: Born 28 April 1878.
Writers in Art: William Shakespeare
Stained glass of William Shakespeare, State Library of Victoria
Stained Glass of William Shakespeare, State Library of Victoria
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Celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s Birthday with This Jane Eyre Google Doodle
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Writers in Art: Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1922.
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms…”-Anna Akhmatova
Rachel Carson Died Fifty Years Ago Today
Rachel Carson died on 14 April 1964.
Robert Hines and Rachel Carson. Courtesy of United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”-Rachel Carson
Writers in Art: Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani
Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani, 1858.
Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani, 1858. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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