I’ve shared this quote before, but it’s good enough to share again:

Wise words from Sylvia
I’ve shared this quote before, but it’s good enough to share again:

Wise words from Sylvia

J.M. Barrie Quote
Sir James Matthew Barrie was born on 9 May 1860.

Portrait of J.M. Barrie. 1904 or earlier.

Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie.

Charles Dickens Giving a Reading, 1867
This engraving is from a sketch by Charles A. Barry. It appeared in Harper’s Weekly in December 1867.
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”-Randall Jarrell (born 6 May 1914)

Orson Welles (born 6 May 1915), giving a press interview following the WAR OF THE WORLDS broadcast, October 31, 1938.
If I’m not reading, I’m adding books to my to-be-read list. That list is monstrously long–maybe not a mile, but getting there!
Here are some of my newest additions, courtesy of the Spring Preview 2016 Catalog from Daedalus Books.
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The writer of such adventure classics as The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, and Captain Blood was born on 29 April 1875. Here he is as a young man, looking rather dapper:

Portrait of birthday boy Rafael Sabatini

Patti Smith Quote