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[A Small Press Life’s Irregular Index of Literary Facts] Debut Novels, Dead Writers Edition: Part One

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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

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

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

[Love at First Site] National Geographic Found

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Found is the new, official online archive blog of National Geographic, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Be warned. As with everything I showcase on Love at First Site, the content is mesmerizing. History pours forth from the photographs with a kinetic, moving vibrancy. Fortunately for your time management needs, Found is in its early stages. I plan on checking back often. Will you?

Inspiration Board-9th March 2013

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Today my muses are spread so far across the map that there really is no map. Yay for eclectic inspiration. Enjoy!

I cannot get enough of John Grant’s new song, Pale Green Ghosts. It is the soundtrack for my packed writing weekend.

Dolores Costello
New Church in Ryde, Isle of Wight, by Alfred Heaton Cooper. 1908.
Votes for Women cup and plate. 1910s. The Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas.
Augustus John
Aristotle Quote Poster
Fannie Ward on an M.J. Moriarty Playing Card. 1916.
Mina Loy by Stephen Haweis. 1905.

Daily Diversion #103: Vintage Water Nymphs

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I went to the 20th Century Cincinnati show last weekend and all I got was… this pretty amazing postcard.

Water Nymphs at a Tropical Beach in Florida

Water Nymphs at a Tropical Beach in Florida

It’s old and the strange hatched postcard finish photographs a bit fuzzy, but isn’t their good time infectious? I want every single bright two-piece swimsuit they are wearing. Come on May!

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow fast in movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again this summer.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby