Harriet Martineau was born on 12 June 1802:
Harriet Martineau
William Styron Quote
Harper’s, June 1896 Cover by Edward Penfield
German writer Thomas Mann was born on 6 June 1875. Here he is as a young man with an exceptionally fine mustache:
A Young Thomas Mann
The statue of Friedrich Schiller at his namesake park in Columbus:
Herr Schiller surveying his domain
Herr Schiller
The other day, through complete happenstance, I found myself listening to/reading the perfect music/book combo. I’ve never consciously attempted to so harmoniously blend the two before, but I’ll definitely do so in the future.
Book: Art on the Block: Tracking the New York Art World from SoHo to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond by Ann Fensterstock
Music:
No Wave
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Whee! The Reel Infatuation blogathon will be here in a couple of weeks!
This is a blogathon where we dish about our secret (or not-so-secret) film or book character crushes – past or present. Click HERE for the original announcement and list of participants.
If you, like us, have trouble picking one fictional character, you can choose two or three!
We’d love to hear your choice in the comments below.
See you June 13-17!
English actor and playwright (The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’, The Enchanted Cottage*) Sir Arthur Wing Pinero was born on 24 May 1855:
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1910
*As a teenager, I was straight up obsessed with the 1945 film adaptation of The Enchanted Cottage, starring Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. It practically gave me life for a few years. This was *totally normal* for a teen in the late eighties/early nineties, right?
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