A Fantastic, Illustrated Version of ‘Don Quixote’ from the ’60s (courtesy of Flavorwire)
Time Capsule: Amazing Don Quixote Illustrations
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A Reading List a Mile Long: Daedalus Books Fall Shorts 2012
Let’s get straight to the good stuff, no filler or fluff.
- Beginning with My Streets: Essays and Recollections by Czeslaw Milosz
- Convertible Houses by Amanda Lam & Amy Thomas
- EYEWITNESS American Originals from the National Archives Gripping Eyewitness Accounts of Moments in U.S. History by Stacey Bredhoff
- Brilliant Women 18th Century Bluestockings by Elizabeth Eger & Lucy Peltz
- Matthew Boulton Selling What the World Desires by Shena Mason
- The Last Explorer Hubert Wilkins: Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration by Simon Nasht Continue reading
Daily Diversion #61: Dublin Writers Postcard
If I was pressed to make a list of my favourite writers, several from Dublin would make the cut. One would also fill the top spot. Guess who?
Dublin Writers Postcard. Top, left to right: Shaw, Yeats. Bottom, left to right: Joyce, Beckett. Artwork by Paula Pohli.
Daily Diversion #58: Suffragette City
My mom sent me this reproduction postcard from England. The original is from c1910.
The text on the reverse side reads: The suffragette movement swung into action with police and hardy women coming face to face.
“Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can’t all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this.”-Ani DiFranco
Shopping for the Bookworm: Oscar Wilde Edition
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”-Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quote Art Print by Kathy O’Connell-$15.00
Banned Book Trading Cards
Banned Book Trading Cards (courtesy of Flavorwire)
Voices from the Grave #39: James Baldwin on ‘The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity’
James Baldwin on The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity.
“It is a total risk.”
A Year in Books/Day 212: The White Blackbird
- Title: The White Blackbird A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
- Author: Honor Moore
- Year Published: 1996 (Penguin Books)
- Year Purchased: 2004/2005
- Source: A bookstore in Buffalo, New York
- About: I love stumbling across books about people whose names and faces don’t register. It is fair to say that I am obsessed with the obscure and the odd and the oddly obscure, especially when the subjects in question are creative and rebellious women. Anyone determined to live a life of artistry has to break some barriers. Deterrents come in many forms, but we all have expectations that we must push past in order to have the freedom to create. Continue reading
The New Novel by Winslow Homer, 1877
I would spend every waking moment doing this…
Winslow Homer, The New Novel (1877).
if only I could.
Daily Diversion #43: Dying is an Art*
I took the day off from writing…
Dying is an art.
to play with skeletons and drink hard cider. See you tomorrow!
*”Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.”-Sylvia Plath
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