Category Archives: Links

[BOOK NERD LINKS] MUSIC BOOKS, TED BERRIGAN, WWI, AND TRANS & NONBINARY AUTHORS

Posted on June 18, 2022 by maedez

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• 12 MUSIC BOOKS THAT WILL ADD SOME COOL TO YOUR SUMMER [NO DEPRESSION]
• THE SIXTIES DIARIES [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• ‘THE FACEMAKER’ PROFILES THE BRITISH SURGEON WHO TREATED WWI’S DISFIGURED SOLDIERS [NPR]
• 12 BOOKS BY UP-AND-COMING TRANS AND NONBINARY AUTHORS [BOOK RIOT]

[Book Nerd News] Cleary, Dostoevsky, Krasner

Posted on March 28, 2021 by maedez

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• Children’s Author Beverly Cleary, Creator of Ramona Quimby, Dies at 104 [NPR]
• When Dostoevsky Hit the St. Petersburg Literary Scene [LIT HUB]
• Lee Krasner’s Elegant Destructions [THE PARIS REVIEW]

[Book Nerd Links] Newspaper Row, Diane di Prima, Black Playwrights, and The Go-Go’s

Posted on November 16, 2020 by maedez

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• The Ghosts of Newspaper Row [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Diane di Prima, Beat Poet and Activist, Dead at 86 [NPR]
• 40 Black playwrights on the theater industry’s insidious racism [LOS ANGELES TIMES]
• How the Go-Go’s Found Their Beat: An Oral History [VOGUE]

[Book Nerd Links] Wanda Coleman, Robin DiAngelo, Movies About Authors, Queer Poets, Caspar David Friedrich

Posted on June 22, 2020 by maedez

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• The Wicked Candor of Wanda Coleman [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• ‘Interrupt The Systems’: Robin DiAngelo On ‘White Fragility’ And Anti-Racism [NPR]
• 13 Movies About Authors [BOOK RIOT]
• 4 Exceptional Queer Poets For Your Pride Reading [BOOK RIOT]
• Painting of the Week: Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in the Oakwood [DAILY ART MAGAZINE]

[Book Nerd Links] Vita Sackville-West, J.J. Phillips, Gerda Taro and Natasja Sadi

Posted on May 1, 2020 by maedez

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• The Fabulous Forgotten Life of Vita Sackville-West [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Re-Covered: A Black Female Beat Novel from the Sixties [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Gerda Taro. The Girl with the Leica [DAILY ART MAGAZINE]
• A Feast of Flowers [THE CUT]

Vita Sackville-West (circa 1926)

[Book Nerd Links] Welty, Beckett, Heaney, Wharton, and Lefteri

Posted on April 17, 2020 by maedez

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• Redux: This Caliper Embrace [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Important lessons from Edith Wharton’s interior decoration manual [LIT HUB]
• ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ Wins 2020 Aspen Words Literary Prize [NPR]

Eudora Welty

[Book Nerd Links] Jane Austen’s Emma, Baby Peggy, Emily Dickinson, Pittsburgh, and Paris

Posted on February 29, 2020 by maedez

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• Emma Takes Place in a Bright Georgian Dollhouse [ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST]
• Baby Peggy, Child Star of Silent Films, Dies at 101 [THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER]
• Emily Dickinson’s White Dress [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Pittsburgh Literary Anthology Centers Stories Of Black Women [WESA]
• On the trail of African American artists and writers in Paris [CNN]

Baby Peggy (April 1922).

[Book Nerd Links] Max Ernst, Scottish Literature, and Black History

Posted on February 15, 2020 by maedez

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• The Collages of Max Ernst [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature [LITHUB]
• ‘Little Legends’ Celebrates Big Lives Of Black History [NPR BOOKS]

[Book Nerd Links] Sonny Mehta, James Thurber, NPR, and Reading Resolutions

Posted on January 3, 2020 by maedez

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• Legendary editor and publisher Sonny Mehta has died. [LIT HUB]
• Book Excerpt: James Thurber’s ‘Collected Fables’ [FLAVORWIRE]
• NPR’s Book Concierge [NPR]
• 8 Bookish New Year’s Resolution Ideas To Improve Your Reading Life [BOOKRIOT]

[Book Nerd Links] Black Mountain Poets, Yayoi Kusama, Poe House, and Elaine Stritch

Posted on December 5, 2019 by maedez

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• Redefining the Black Mountain Poets [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Entering Infinity with Yayoi Kusama [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Baltimore knows its Poe House is a treasure, but now it’s officially Maryland’s first ‘Literary Landmark’ [BALTIMORE SUN]
• Elaine Stritch’s Never-Ending Search to Get Her Due [LIT HUB]

Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum (Baltimore, Maryland).