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Edgar Allan Poe’s house reopens [courtesy THE BALTIMORE SUN]
[Book Nerd News] The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum Reopened Yesterday
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Tag Archives: Fiction
Writers Writing: Frederick Philip Grove
Frederick Philip Grove, 1921-1922.
Frederick Philip Grove, 1921-1922
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“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.”-Eudora Welty
A Brief Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald on His Birthday
Dear Scott,
Another year has gone by, and I still find you as enigmatic and problematic as ever. You, who could write such beautiful words, ruffle my feathers like few others. You, who squandered such exemplary gifts, frustrate me to the point of madness. Although I’ve never loved you, not even a bit, I have spent some wonderful time in your company. At this point in the game, I realize that I will never stop questioning you and, in questioning you, relentlessly, learn more about myself than I ever cared to know. Happy birthday, you beautiful bastard.
Yours (but not really),
Maedez
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Gordon Bryant. Shadowland, 1921.
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”-This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers in Art: Leo Tolstoy
Under a Lamp (Lev Tolstoy in the Family Circle) by Leonid Pasternak, 1902.
Under a Lamp by Leonid Pasternak, 1902
[Book Nerd Links] Illustrations of Literary Heroines
9 of Literature’s Most Beloved Heroines [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Do you have a favourite?
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Bret Harte/Truman Capote Mashup
Bret Harte was born on 8/25/1836.
Bret Harte, 1862.
“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’/More sad are these we daily see: ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”-Bret Harte
Truman Capote died on 8/25/1984.
Truman Capote, 1959, by Roger Higgins.
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”-Truman Capote
[Book Nerd News] Elmore Leonard is Dead!
Elmore Leonard Dead: Famed American Novelist Dies At Age 87 [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 [courtesy THE NEW YORK TIMES]
Elmore Leonard dies at 87; master of the hard-boiled crime novel [courtesy LOS ANGELES TIMES]
My Anti-Heroine is Bossy!
The anti-heroine of my work in progress is bossy!
Jean Acker
She insists on looking like Jean Acker. I can’t say I blame her.
[Book Nerd Art] The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cover of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922.
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
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