Hey, you! I’m kicking up my heels with The Chef this week. Kind of like this:
Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers and Nancy Carroll in ‘Close Harmony,’ 1929.
He’s going out-of-town on business until mid-May, so I am enjoying his company whilst I can. Posts will keep coming, every day, as usual. They just won’t be deep or wordy. Think of them as tasty bites, snacks to sustain you between meals. Things will be back to normal starting on Monday.
Vonnegut Quote
Kurt Vonnegut reading an excerpt from Breakfast of Champions.
Cityscape against a sunny sky, Easter afternoon
“The sun–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
Zelda Fitzgerald Quote Print by 3 Lambs Illustration. $12.50
Zelda Fitzgerald Ring by Quoted Art. $9.00
Still Life with Piles of French Novels and a Glass with a Rose, Vincent van Gogh, 1887
…kind of want to marry the snazzy gent on the cover of the Early Spring 2013 Daedalus Books catalogue. My secret is safe with you, right?
He’s dreamy, isn’t he?
Fascinating Photos of Famous Authors as Teenagers [courtesy Flavorwire]
Be sure to come back and tell me your thoughts!
Virginia Woolf drowned on this day in 1941, her pockets deliberately heavy with stones. Did she, I wonder, caress their smooth surfaces with the pads of her thumbs, as she waded into the water? Did she choose her death-coat because it had roomy pockets, or because it was her favourite? Was she being sentimental or practical?
Virginia Woolf, 1902
The River Ouse received her whilst her books were on shelves in libraries and homes around the world. It wasn’t enough, but why should it be? Private wars are always the hardest fought, and are seldom won.
What words and ideas did she leave unwritten? Would they have changed literature, changed the world, changed me? Ah, but we’ll never know.
The 22 Most Iconic Book Covers Of All Time [courtesy BuzzFeed]
Do you agree or disagree with their choices?
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