- Children’s Author Bernard Waber Dies at 91 [courtesy Huff Post Books]
- 24 Classic Books’ Original Titles [courtesy Huff Post Books]
- Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
[Book Nerd Links] Three Delightful Links to Start Your Day Off Right
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Hey There, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, You Natty Gent! It’s Your Birthday!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on this day in 1859. In addition to being a physician and wildly famous author, he was quite the fashion plate.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890.
QUOTE: “I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”
SOME WORKS: The Sherlock Holmes books; The Stark Munro Letters; The Maracot Deep; The Lost World; dozens of short stories.
A KEEPSAKE:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle print by Pemberley Pond. $19.92
Books in Art: Girl Reading by Winslow Homer
Girl Reading by Winslow Homer, circa 1879.
Girl Reading by Winslow Homer, circa 1879.
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“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”-Yevgeny Zamyatin
Voices from the Grave #70: Patrick Kavanagh Reading ‘The Hospital’
Patrick Kavanagh reading The Hospital.
The Dead Writers Round-Up: May 18th-20th
- Nathaniel Hawthorne died on 5/18/1864. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.” (The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; The Blithedale Romance; Twice-Told Tales)
- George Meredith died on 5/18/1909. “There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.” (The Adventures of Harry Richmond; Diana of the Crossways; Modern Love)
- William Saroyan died on 5/18/1981. “No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would expect.” (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze; The Human Comedy; The Time of Your Life)
- James Boswell died on 5/19/1795. “I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.” (The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides; Life of Samuel Johnson) Continue reading
[Book Nerd Art] Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington
The frontispiece from Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. 1922. Illustrated by: C. Allan Gilbert and Worth Brehm.
Frontispiece of Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington
[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire for Passionate Readers-Let’s Review
[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire For Passionate Readers is an interview series done in classic Q&A format. Each entry features one intrepid writer/blogger/artist/creative mastermind as they take on the same 40 reading-themed questions and scenarios.
So far we’ve featured 3 amazing bloggers. If you missed any of their interviews, now is a great time to catch up!
Inspiration Board: 16th May 2013
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”-Janis Joplin
O, You Bad Girl!
Near Sydenham Hill. Camille Pissarro, 1871.
Paulette Goddard, on the cover of Cinegraf, October 1935.
Columbus Skyline Panorama by Derek Jensen, 2006
Bobbed-Hair Bimbos
My Fox Box
Lya de Putti
Daily Diversion #127: Packing My Babies
I had to do it, eventually.
I am just getting started. The books in the middle box look like they have hatched an escape plan.
I hate packing my books. Even though I am just getting started, my studio already seems bereft of a certain energy.
“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”-Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833.
Marilyn, waiting her turn.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 