Thanks to each one of you, 2014 was a fabulous blogging year!
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Tag Archives: Reading
[Book Nerd Links] Depression Era Pulp
I can think of few better ways to slosh through the winter months than by reading 1930s pulp fiction.
Phoenix Press: Depression Era Pulp [Abe Books]
The Leprechaun Murders by Adrian Reynolds (Image via Abe Books)
Daily Diversion #245: A Punk Rock Christmas, Part Two
Another fabulous gift from my mom:
Chris Stein/Negative
So Long, Theo!
“The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions-none more so than the most capable.”-Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser by Frank Harris, 1919
Theodore Dreiser died on 28 December 1945.
Daily Diversion #244: A Punk Rock Christmas, Part One
A gift from my sweet momma:
Viv Albertine’s memoir
[Book Nerd Links] Cool Reads for a Cold Monday
- The Year’s Best Cultural Criticism [Flavorwire]
- The Year’s Worst Cultural Criticism [Flavorwire]
- The Best Book Covers of 2014 [The New York Times]
- Flaubert’s Past Lives [The Paris Review]
- Norman Bridwell, ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ Creator, Dead at 86 [Huff Post Books]
- Dash and Daring Never Go Out of Style [Huff Post Books]
- 7 Classic Books with Happy Endings Even Scrooges Will Love [Huff Post Books]
Happy Birthday, Rebecca West!
Rebecca West, who had a long, productive, and exciting life, was born on 21 December 1892:
Rebecca West
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
Writers in Art: Jane Austen*
Here is our birthday girl as depicted by her sister, Cassandra:
Back-view watercolour of Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, 1804
*Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775.
[A Holiday Shopping Spree for the Bookworm] It’s a Wrap!
Let’s recap:
- Mrs Peggotty Arts
- Terrific Friends
- Uneek Doll Designs
- Obvious State
- Badly Drawn Authors
- Literature Lodge
Happy shopping!
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Maxwell Anderson/Charles Laughton Mashup
“If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.”-Maxwell Anderson (born 15 December 1888)
Charles Laughton (died 15 December 1962) by Carl Van Vechten. 1940.
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