Author Flannery O’Connor on new stamp June 5 [Linns.com]
This is exciting!
[Book Nerd News] Flannery O’Connor Stamp
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John Steinbeck Quote
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“Consequently I have never even wondered about the comparative standing of writers. I don’t understand that. Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product is turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn’t mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”-John Steinbeck (Paris Review-The Art of Fiction No. 45)
John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45 [The Paris Review]
[Book Nerd Links] 1906: Illustrations for The War of the Worlds
Terrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ [Flavorwire]
Martian Emerges. Image from Flavorwire.
Artwork by Henrique Alvim Corrêa.
Off Topic Post: Luxury Apartment Buildings in NYC, 1880s-1910s
These are fascinating.
10 Elaborate Floor Plans from Pre-World War I New York City Apartments [mental_floss]
[Book Nerd Links] Trollope News, and Four Other Compelling Links
- Downton’s Fellowes adapting Anthony Trollope novel for TV [BBC NEWS]
- What’s So Great About Young Writers? [The New York Times]
- MH Abrams, Norton anthology founder, influential critic, dead at age 102 [The Guardian]
- Authors’ income ‘at breaking point’ [BBC News]
- Stereotype-Busting Women In Historical Fiction [Huff Post Books]
[Book Nerd Links] Four Things to Read on a Sunny Saturday
- Barbara Pym and the New Spinster [The New Yorker]
- ‘Wolf Hall’ Brings Machiavellian Flair and Masterclass Acting to PBS [Flavorwire]
- Use good words, not bad ones [The Economist]*
- Reclaiming One of Ireland’s Masterpieces [Huff Post Books]
*I really dislike this article. I’m including it for the many lively and astute comments.
[Book Nerd Links] Four Interesting Bookish Articles
- Cool Girls Do It Better: On Kim Gordon’s Juicy, Modest Memoir, ‘Girl in a Band’ [Flavorwire]
- 20 Female Harlem Renaissance Writers You Should Know [Flavorwire]
- Victor Hugo’s Drawings [The Paris Review]
- Alice Neel’s Brothers Karamazov [The Paris Review]
[Book Nerd Links] Literary Cliques
[Book Nerd Links] Three Articles to Read on a Cold Day
- Top 100 Most Searched-For Books of 2014 [Abe Books]
- 25 Painfully Unrequited Love Stories From Literature [Flavorwire]*
- Philip Levine, 1928-2015 [The Paris Review]
*This list is a bit broader than their headline suggests: “For your Valentine’s Day pleasure, here’s a selection of literature’s most painfully unrequited, star-crossed and thwarted romances.”
[Book Nerd Links] At the Museum of London, the City That Sherlock Holmes Knew
At the Museum of London, the City That Sherlock Holmes Knew [The New York Times]
Looks interesting!
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