Poet Anne Sexton died 40 years ago today. In remembrance, here’s a clip of her reading Wanting to Die.
Voices from the Grave: Anne Sexton Reading ‘Wanting to Die’
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Tag Archives: Dead Writers
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Pierre Bonnard/Thomas Wolfe
“Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”-Thomas Wolfe (born 3 October 1900)
Pierre Bonnard (born 3 October 1867): Self-Portrait, circa 1889
[Book Nerd News] Long-Lost Silent Sherlock Holmes Movie is Found
Long-Lost Silent Sherlock Holmes Movie is Found [courtesy The Hollywood Reporter]
This is terribly exciting news for fans of literature, theatre, and silent cinema.
An advert for William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, 1916
Let’s Celebrate the Late Truman Capote’s 90th Birthday with This Fab Print
Truman Capote Print by 5 or Six Talents. $5.00
Writers Writing: Frances Marion, 1918
Frances Marion in Photoplay, 1918:
Frances Marion, “caught” in the act of writing.
[Alternative Muses] Two for the Road: Erich Maria Remarque/Mary Astor Mashup
“Life is a disease, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying-a little shove toward the end.”-Erich Maria Remarque (died on 25 September 1970)
Stars of the Photoplay, 1924: Mary Astor (died on 25 September 1987)
[Alternative Muses] Writerly Style: Françoise Sagan
Re-posting in honor of the tenth anniversary of her death.
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”-Yves Saint Laurent
Françoise Sagan was the ultimate cool girl writer. If you believe that style should be effortless and detached, then she is your muse. Even today, a wardrobe like hers can take you almost anywhere, and anywhere it can’t you probably don’t want to go.
The writer looking brilliantly modern. Oh, that skirt! That shirt! That hair!
Her uncomplicated look remains fresh more than five decades later. Who needs nail varnish and lipstick when you can look like this? She is proof that decadent lives do not need visible gilding.
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[Book Nerd Art] Liza Kalitina, from Ivan Turgenev’s Home of the Gentry
An illustration of Liza Kalitina, a character from Home of the Gentry:
Home of the Gentry: Liza Kalitina. The illustration is from circa 1880.
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Herman Melville
- Name: Herman Melville
- D/O/B: 8/1/1819
- Member Since: 1860
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Chief teller of rousing sea-born tales, some of them even true
- Hobbies: Whale-watching; dreaming of mystifying high-school students for generations to come; maintaining his luxurious head of model-worthy hair
Herman Melville, 1860
Shopping for the Bookworm: D is for Dickinson, Emily
D is for Dickinson, Emily:
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 