Fascinating Early-20th-Century Color Photos of Famous People [courtesy Flavorwire]
There are several writers included. Be sure to come back and let us know your favourite!
[R]evolving Incarnations: A Questionnaire For Passionate Readers is an interview series done in classic Q&A format. Each entry features one intrepid writer/blogger/artist/creative mastermind as they take on the same 40 reading-themed questions and scenarios.
So far we’ve featured 3 amazing bloggers. If you missed any of their interviews, now is a great time to catch up!
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”-Janis Joplin
I had to do it, eventually.
I am just getting started. The books in the middle box look like they have hatched an escape plan.
I hate packing my books. Even though I am just getting started, my studio already seems bereft of a certain energy.
“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”-Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833.
Marilyn, waiting her turn.
Paddy Chayefsky Quote
Writer-painter August Strindberg died on 14 May 1912. Here he is, looking suitably bohemian…
August Strindberg, self-portrait. Circa 1891.
QUOTE: “I dream, therefore I exist.”
SOME WORKS: Master Olof; The Free Thinker; The Outlaw; The Father; The Dance of Death; A Dream Play; The Great Highway; The Son of a Servant.
A KEEPSAKE:
August Strindberg Pinback Button by BuyTheLightoftheMoon. $1.50
Daily Rituals of Famous Authors [courtesy Huff Post Books]
Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines for Great Works of Literature [courtesy Flavorwire]
An extract from The Make Believe World of Daphne du Maurier.
FYI-Daphne du Maurier was born 106 years ago today!
When it comes to feelings, writers often over-write. We embellish, write in circles, whip out florid phrases. All in an effort to tell someone how much they mean to us, when a simple, “I love you,” would do. Today is Mother’s Day in the US, and I only need four words.
I LOVE YOU, MOM.
Mother Sewing by Mary Cassatt
“Adversity” illustration by Edith Mahier, from the Tulane University yearbook. 1915.
Edith Mahier Illustration, 1915. Tulane University Yearbook.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 