These are fascinating.
10 Elaborate Floor Plans from Pre-World War I New York City Apartments [mental_floss]
Off Topic Post: Luxury Apartment Buildings in NYC, 1880s-1910s
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Tag Archives: Links
[Book Nerd Links] Trollope News, and Four Other Compelling Links
- Downton’s Fellowes adapting Anthony Trollope novel for TV [BBC NEWS]
- What’s So Great About Young Writers? [The New York Times]
- MH Abrams, Norton anthology founder, influential critic, dead at age 102 [The Guardian]
- Authors’ income ‘at breaking point’ [BBC News]
- Stereotype-Busting Women In Historical Fiction [Huff Post Books]
[Book Nerd Links] Four Things to Read on a Sunny Saturday
- Barbara Pym and the New Spinster [The New Yorker]
- ‘Wolf Hall’ Brings Machiavellian Flair and Masterclass Acting to PBS [Flavorwire]
- Use good words, not bad ones [The Economist]*
- Reclaiming One of Ireland’s Masterpieces [Huff Post Books]
*I really dislike this article. I’m including it for the many lively and astute comments.
[Book Nerd Links] Four Interesting Bookish Articles
- Cool Girls Do It Better: On Kim Gordon’s Juicy, Modest Memoir, ‘Girl in a Band’ [Flavorwire]
- 20 Female Harlem Renaissance Writers You Should Know [Flavorwire]
- Victor Hugo’s Drawings [The Paris Review]
- Alice Neel’s Brothers Karamazov [The Paris Review]
[Book Nerd Links] Literary Cliques
[Book Nerd Links] Three Articles to Read on a Cold Day
- Top 100 Most Searched-For Books of 2014 [Abe Books]
- 25 Painfully Unrequited Love Stories From Literature [Flavorwire]*
- Philip Levine, 1928-2015 [The Paris Review]
*This list is a bit broader than their headline suggests: “For your Valentine’s Day pleasure, here’s a selection of literature’s most painfully unrequited, star-crossed and thwarted romances.”
[Book Nerd Links] At the Museum of London, the City That Sherlock Holmes Knew
At the Museum of London, the City That Sherlock Holmes Knew [The New York Times]
Looks interesting!
Check Out a Q&A I Did Over at Fossil Lake!
Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling comes out later this month. In the meantime, you can check out a Q&A I did over on the anthology’s official blog. It was fun!
If you’d like to know some world-shattering tidbits about yours truly, such as my favourite aquatic-themed entertainment*, then head on over to Fossil Lake. While you’re there, be sure to read the entertaining profiles of my fellow Refossileers.
Refossileer Spotlight, Day 11-Alicia Austen
*Do you think it is…?
A. Cavorting at the beach
Gloria Swanson and Phyllis Haver
B. Whatever this is
Marine animals, fish and otters on the beach overlooking a bay with sailing boat and mountain in the distance by Jan van Kessel the Elder
C. Gaudy Esther Williams musicals
Esther Williams
[Book Nerd Links] Rejected Bestsellers
[Book Nerd Links] Weekend Extravaganza
- Penguin Drop Caps: Beautiful Books from A to Z [Abe Books]
- 10 Beautiful Bookshops That Will Stop You in Your Tracks [Abe Books]
- 27 Hilarious Literary Corrections That Will Ruin Your Trust In The Media [Huff Post Books]
- Robert Stone, Novelist of the Vietnam Era and Beyond, Dies at 77 [The New York Times]
- Astonish me with a book cover [The Washington Post]
- Leo Tolstoy’s theory of everything [Salon]
- The 50 Sexiest Literary Villains [Flavorwire]
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