Red Kimono on the Roof, 1912, by John French Sloan (born 2 August 1871).
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”-James Baldwin (born 2 August 1924)
Hemingway Look-Alike Contest Is The Best Thing You’ll See All Day [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
I agree! These men have the Hemingway Grumpy Face down solid.
After seven weeks of sweat and over-thinking every detail, my studio is finally habitable. I promise to give you a piecemeal detour over the coming weeks. Here is a teaser!
Studio door
Arthur Miller, my sixth favourite playwright.
A Visual History of the Evolution of the Penguin Paperback [courtesy New Republic]
My love of all things Penguin is well-known, but this is an interesting tour of its history.
The creator of Wuthering Heights, and some truly fabulous poetry, was born on 30 July 1818. She was the weird sister, and for that I love her even more.
Emily Brontë by Branwell Brontë
A QUOTE: “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”-Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
SOME WORKS: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; Wuthering Heights
A KEEPSAKE:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë at Cynthia’s Attic. $24.00
Emily Brontë Quote
I used my birthday as an excuse to buy a lot of books. I thought about posting a photo of them all together, but did not want to come across as word-greedy (which I totally am). Here is one to get the party started. I love the emotionally compartmentalized, yet aesthetically vivid, cover.
Some works by Henrik Ibsen, my second favourite playwright.
A great advert for George Bernard Shaw’s play, Captain Brassbound’s Conversion.
Captain Brassbound’s Conversion
“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”-Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter, 1912, by Rupert Potter. Born on 28 July 1866.
Rrose Selavy (Marcel Duchamp) by Man Ray, 1921. Born on 28 July 1887.
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”-Marcel Duchamp
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 