This is a close-up of the wallpaper mural at Austen & Company. The Biblioteca Wallpaper is by Ekaterina Panikanova. Isn’t it delightful?
Biblioteca Wallpaper: Detail. Design by: Ekaterina Panikanova.
Daily Diversion #443: Wallpaper (Detail)
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Tag Archives: Books
[Book Nerd Links] Jane Austen’s Emma, Baby Peggy, Emily Dickinson, Pittsburgh, and Paris
- 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
- 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 News] Alice Mayhew, Kamau Brathwaite, and Kirk Douglas
- Remembering Alice Mayhew, Legendary Editor [LITHUB]
- Kamau Brathwaite: 1930-2020 [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Hollywood Pays Tribute to “Incredible Icon” Kirk Douglas [THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER]
Kirk Douglas, circa 1955.
[Book Nerd News] Harriet Frank Jr., George Steiner, and John Baldessari
- Harriet Frank Jr. Dies at 96 [THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER]
- George Steiner Dies at 90 [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
- John Baldessari Dies at 88 [LA TIMES]
Harriet Frank Jr. (Amazing Stories, June-July 1953)
Bookstagram and Other Things
As some of you know, my mom is opening a business…and it’s a family affair. Austen & Company is many parts that we hope will make a cohesive, if quirky, whole: Tea and tea accessories, coffee, desserts, books, art, events, curiosities, import snacks, and cocktails. Whew, that’s a lot!
We’re not open yet, but, this being 2020, Austen & Company is already on social media. Both our Instagram and Facebook pages are full of sneak peeks. We’re doing an Instagram series highlighting some of the books we’ll be selling in-store. Even if you’re not local, hey, who doesn’t like pretty pics of books?
Millay
Simone
@austenandcompany
Bowie
Thanks for indulging me!
Happy Birthday, Pride and Prejudice!
Pride and Prejudice was published on this day in 1813:
Pride and Prejudice
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!–When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Daily Diversion #439: Well Read Women
This was a gift from my bestie!
Reader’s Journal
[Book Nerd News] Elizabeth Wurtzel Dies at 52
Nella Larsen on Imagination
“Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it.”–Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen (1928). Photographed by James Allen.
