The 22 Most Iconic Book Covers Of All Time [courtesy BuzzFeed]
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Daily Prompt: Judgment Day
I cannot get over the fact that it is possible to have one favourite book. My mind is blown. What was the question again?
This bafflement is in response to the Daily Prompt: Judgment Day. If you were to judge your favourite book by its cover, would you still read it?
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Voices from the Grave #64: Flannery O’Connor Reading ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’
An excerpt of Flannery O’Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1959.
Her reading is brilliant.
[Book Nerd Links] If Dead Writers Weren’t Dead and Used Instagram
Back from the Dead and Taking Selfies: Classic Authors on Instagram [courtesy Quirk Books]
[Shopping for the Bookworm] The Smiths’ Albums Rendered as Books and Turned Into Posters
My husband is a huge fan of The Smiths. I know he will adore these. Do you?
All four prints are available as a set from Standard Designs. They are also sold individually. This is my favourite.
Strangeways, Here We Come book poster print at Standard Designs. $19.49
[A Small Press Life’s Irregular Index of Literary Facts] Debut Novels, Dead Writers Edition: Part One
Welcome to A Small Press Life’s Irregular Index of Literary Facts, a new feature designed to give lovely order to the random bookish trivia traveling around my brain. If you like lists, mental organization, random facts, or useless trivia about authors famous and obscure, you will definitely want to keep reading.
DEBUT NOVELS, DEAD WRITERS EDITION: PART ONE
The following books represent the first published novels of their respective authors, which were not always the first to be written. All novels are readily available in both traditional and e-reader versions.
- Louisa May Alcott: Moods
- Sherwood Anderson: Windy McPherson’s Son
- Gertrude Atherton: What Dreams May Come
Gertrude Atherton
- Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility
- James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Djuna Barnes: Ryder
- Arna Bontemps: God Sends Sunday: A Novel
- Elizabeth Bowen: The Hotel
- Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
- Kay Boyle: Plagued by the Nightingale
- Louis Bromfield: The Green Bay Tree
- Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey
- Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
- Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
- Pearl S. Buck: East Wind: West Wind
- Fanny Burney: Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
- James M. Cain: The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms
- Willa Cather: Alexander’s Bridge
- Kate Chopin: At Fault
- Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Colette: Claudine at School
- Wilkie Collins: Antonina
- Ivy Compton-Burnett: Dolores
- Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Philip K. Dick: Solar Lottery
- Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Poor Folk
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- George Eliot: Adam Bede
George Eliot
- William Faulkner: Soldier’s Pay
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
- Zelda Fitzgerald: Save Me the Waltz
- Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
- Ford Madox Ford: The Shifting of the Fire
- Zona Gale: Romance Island
- Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton
- Andre Gidé: The Notebooks of André Walter
- Ellen Glasgow: The Descendant
- Susan Glaspell: The Glory of the Conquered
The Dead Writers Round-Up: March 21st-24th
- Robert Southey died on 3/21/1843. “How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.” (The Fall of Robespierre; Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem; After Blenheim; Madoc)
- Caroline Sheridan Norton was born on 3/22/1808. “We have been friends together in sunshine and shade.” (A Voice from the Factories; The Undying One and Other Poems; Stuart of Dunleath)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died on 3/22/1832. “Character develops itself in the stream of life.” (The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship; Faust)
- Isabel Burton died on 3/22/1896. “Honour, not honours.” (The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: from my private journal; Arabia, Egypt, India: a narrative of travel; The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton)
- Louis L’Amour was born on 3/22/1908. “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” (Silver Canyon; Shalako; The Ferguson Rifle; The Walking Drum)
- Stendhal died on 3/23/1842. “This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.” (Armance; Lucien Leuwen; The Charterhouse of Parma; Vanina Vanini)
- William Morris was born on 3/24/1834. “I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.” (The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs; A Dream of John Ball; News from Nowhere (or, An Epoch of Rest); The Water of the Wondrous Isles)
- Olive Schreiner was born on 3/24/1855. “No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.” (The Story of an African Farm; Stories, Dreams and Allegories; Woman and Labour)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died on 3/24/1882. “Music is the universal language of mankind.” (Hyperion, A Romance; Kavanagh; The Song of Hiawatha)
- Jules Verne died on 3/24/1905. “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” (Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days; Around the Moon; Off on a Comet)
- John Millington Synge died on 3/24/1909. “In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.” (In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Playboy of the Western World; Deidre of the Sorrows)
Robert Southey, Project Gutenberg
Isabel Burton, 1861
Caroline Sheridan Norton
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Georg Oswald May, 1779
Stendhal’s grave in Montmartre, Paris
William Morris, Self-portrait, 1856
Olive Schreiner, 1889
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868
Jules Verne
John Millington Synge
[Book Nerd Links] Interview with New ‘Wizard of Oz’ Cover Designer
Huff Post Books interviews skateboard designer Michael Sieben about his illustrations for a new edition of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I think his work is whimsical, refreshing, and exquisite.
New ‘Wizard of Oz’ Cover : Designer Michael Sieben Interview [courtesy Huff Post Books]
Be sure to come back and share your impressions in the comment section.
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Walt Whitman
- Name: Walt Whitman
- DOB: 5/13/1819
- Member Since: 1863
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Taking tickets at club functions.
- Hobbies: Going to the library; teaching; writing barrier-smashing poetry; keeping us guessing.
Walt Whitman by G. Frank E. Pearsall, 1872
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