“An author never has a vacation. He’s a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he’s saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.”-Ben Ames Williams, Leave Her to Heaven
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Category Archives: Reading
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Elizabeth Barrett Browning/Georgia O’Keeffe Mashup
“Earth’s crammed with heaven…But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (born on 6 March 1806)
Blue #2 by Georgia O’Keeffe (died on 6 March 1986), circa 1916.
Carlos Fuentes Quote.
[Forgotten Gems] Free e-books Edition: Eminent Victorians and Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
Princess Victoria aged Four by Stephen Poyntz Denning, 1823.
[Book Nerd Humour] Let’s Use Slate’s Travoltify Your Name Generator on Some Dead Writers
- CHARLES DICKENS=CARYS DORNIELS
- VIRGINIA WOOLF=VICTOR WHAYTE
- JANE AUSTEN=JOE ALLORN
- LEO TOLSTOY=LUKE TAYZLOR
- KATHERINE MANSFIELD=KRISTOPHER MCEEZALD
- JACK KEROUAC=JIA KEENEEDIA
- F. SCOTT FITZGERALD=F. STUART FERZGUSON
- ZELDA FITZGERALD=ZARA FERZGUSON
- GEORGE ELIOT=GRACE EDJANS
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY=ELLIOT HARGISION
- ANNE BRONTË=AVA BORFES
- CHARLOTTE BRONTË=COLE BORFES
- EMILY BRONTË=ELIJAH BORFES
What does this alternate world look like?
Thanks to Vickie Lester for letting me know about the Travoltify Your Name generator!
Shopping for the Bookworm: Victor Hugo Edition
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Les Misérables Notebook by Constarlation. $6.99.
The Works of Victor Hugo, 1928, at Picard’s General Store. $29.00.
Victor Hugo Print by Terrific Friends. $15.00.
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Pierre-Auguste Renoir/Tennessee Williams Mashup
The Umbrellas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born on 2/25/1841), circa 1881-1886.
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”-Tennessee Williams (died on 2/25/1983)
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Leo Tolstoy
- Name: Leo Tolstoy
- D/O/B: 9/9/1828
- Member since: 1868
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Spiritual advisor
- Hobbies: Raising his large brood of children; nonviolent resistance; austerity
Leo Tolstoy
Some of My Favourite Literary Biographies, Part One
I own a sizable collection of literary biographies. These are some of my favourites:
- Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines
- The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
- Louise Bogan A Portrait by Elizabeth Frank
- Truman Capote by George Plimpton
- Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman
- My Wars Are Laid Away in Books The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger
- Herself, Defined H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest
- George Eliot A Life by Rosemary Ashton
Do you have a favourite?
Edna St. Vincent Millay: 22 February 1892
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892.
Edna St. Vincent Millay.
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”-Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 