A clip from a 2004 interview with Mickey Spillane. It is long, but fascinating.
Voices from the Grave #75: Mickey Spillane Interview
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A Photo of Hemingway Looking Rakish, Just Because
Hemingway in Paris, circa 1924.
Ernest Hemingway
Daily Diversion #149: Existentialist Cat
Miss Zizi
“The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.”-Simone de Beauvoir
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Jane Austen/Clifford Odets Mashup
Jane Austen died on 7/18/1817.
Jane Austen
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”-Jane Austen
Clifford Odets was born on 7/18/1906.
Clifford Odets, 1936
“Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills.”-Clifford Odets
[Alternative Muses] Writerly Style: Françoise Sagan
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”-Yves Saint Laurent
Françoise Sagan was the ultimate cool girl writer. If you believe that style should be effortless and detached, then she is your muse. Even today, a wardrobe like hers can take you almost anywhere, and anywhere it can’t you probably don’t want to go.
The writer looking brilliantly modern. Oh, that skirt! That shirt! That hair!
Her uncomplicated look remains fresh more than five decades later. Who needs nail varnish and lipstick when you can look like this? She is proof that decadent lives do not need visible gilding. Continue reading
[Book Nerd Links] 50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit
50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit [courtesy Flavorwire]
I have 3 questions for you, dear readers.
- How many places on this list have you visited?
- Where would you most like to visit?
- Is there a literary site (or sites) you think should have made the list?
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“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.’-Albert Einstein
Writers in Art: Vsevolod Garshin
Vsevolod Garshin by Ilya Repin.
Vsevolod Garshin by Ilya Repin
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Gustav Klimt/Woody Guthrie
Nixen (Silberfische), c. 1899, by Gustav Klimt (born 14 July 1862)
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that.”-Woody Guthrie (born 14 July 1912)
[Book Nerd Links] Ten Amazing Cheeses and Their Literary Counterparts
Cheese Reads: Ten Amazing Cheeses and Their Literary Counterparts [courtesy The Airship]
This is…different, and mouth-watering. Thoughts?
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