Peter Matthiessen, 1927-2014 [courtesy the Paris Review]
[Book Nerd News] Peter Matthiessen is Dead
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“I don’t believe that responsibility in an author ever worked. I don’t believe that any author ever did any good because he was feeling a responsibility. I believe some authors instinctively feel a certain love for the human being, and they will do a lot of good, I hope. And some of the ones don’t, and that’s all.”-Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir Drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1901
[Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty] Third-wave
Weekly Writing Challenge: Fifty
“No rules. Just stick to the word count-no more, no less than fifty words.”
Here is my entry.
Third-wave
Rosamund was born disliking two things: being ordered about, and the baffling human impulse to join social clubs. At five, she was horrified to discover that girls were expected to politely comply with those very requests. She thought, “To hell with that!”, and screamed so long that her throat soured.
You’ll Never Perfect Your Craft
How does that make you feel?
You’ll never perfect your craft.
The idea that you can perfect your craft is a chimera, a distraction.
Books in Art: Nurse Reading to a Little Girl by Mary Cassatt
Nurse Reading to a Little Girl by Mary Cassatt, 1895
Nurse Reading to a Little Girl by Mary Cassatt, 1895
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Allen Ginsberg Quote
[Book Nerd News] Arthur Conan Doyle/Edgar Allan Poe
- AN UPDATE ON SAVE UNDERSHAW: Arthur Conan Doyle’s house to be converted into special school [courtesy The Guardian]
- Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe Statue Will Be Unveiled in October [courtesy Boston Magazine]
Happy 100th Birthday, Marguerite Duras!
Marguerite Duras was born on 4 April 1914.
“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”-Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein
The tomb of Marguerite Duras
3 April 1783: Washington Irving, American Dreamboat
Washington Irving, a titan in the annals of American Literature, was born on 3 April 1783.
“There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.”-Washington Irving
Surprisingly, the father of Ichabod and Rip was something of a dreamboat as a young man.
Washington Irving at 22.
Portrait of Washington Irving by John Wesley Jarvis, 1809.
Washington Irving in 1820.
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Émile Zola/Buddy Ebsen
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”-Émile Zola (born 2 April 1840)
Buddy Ebsen, 1936. He was born on 2 April 1908.
Shirley Temple and Buddy Ebsen in Captain January (1936).
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