Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dead [courtesy of HuffPost Books]
Roger Ebert Dead [courtesy HuffPost Entertainment]
[Book Nerd News] Roger Ebert, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dead
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[Book Nerd Links] If Anyone Can Teach You About Drinking, It’s a Writer
10 Famous Writers on How to Drink [courtesy Flavorwire]
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Vonnegut Quote
Voices from the Grave #65: Kurt Vonnegut Reading an Excerpt from ‘Breakfast of Champions’
Kurt Vonnegut reading an excerpt from Breakfast of Champions.
Daily Diversion #112: The Sun, the Bright Sun
Cityscape against a sunny sky, Easter afternoon
“The sun–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Shopping for the Bookworm: Zelda Fitzgerald Edition
Zelda Fitzgerald Quote Print by 3 Lambs Illustration. $12.50
Zelda Fitzgerald Ring by Quoted Art. $9.00
Books in Art: Still Life with Piles of French Novels and a Glass with a Rose by Vincent van Gogh
Still Life with Piles of French Novels and a Glass with a Rose, Vincent van Gogh, 1887
[Book Nerd Crushes] Shhh! Don’t Tell My Husband, But I…
…kind of want to marry the snazzy gent on the cover of the Early Spring 2013 Daedalus Books catalogue. My secret is safe with you, right?
He’s dreamy, isn’t he?
[Book Nerd Links] Fascinating Photos of Famous Authors as Teenagers
Fascinating Photos of Famous Authors as Teenagers [courtesy Flavorwire]
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28th March 1941: Virginia Woolf, Dead at 59
Virginia Woolf drowned on this day in 1941, her pockets deliberately heavy with stones. Did she, I wonder, caress their smooth surfaces with the pads of her thumbs, as she waded into the water? Did she choose her death-coat because it had roomy pockets, or because it was her favourite? Was she being sentimental or practical?
Virginia Woolf, 1902
The River Ouse received her whilst her books were on shelves in libraries and homes around the world. It wasn’t enough, but why should it be? Private wars are always the hardest fought, and are seldom won.
What words and ideas did she leave unwritten? Would they have changed literature, changed the world, changed me? Ah, but we’ll never know.
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