A gift from my sweet momma:
Viv Albertine’s memoir
Daily Diversion #244: A Punk Rock Christmas, Part One
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Tag Archives: Writing
[Book Nerd Links] Cool Reads for a Cold Monday
- The Year’s Best Cultural Criticism [Flavorwire]
- The Year’s Worst Cultural Criticism [Flavorwire]
- The Best Book Covers of 2014 [The New York Times]
- Flaubert’s Past Lives [The Paris Review]
- Norman Bridwell, ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ Creator, Dead at 86 [Huff Post Books]
- Dash and Daring Never Go Out of Style [Huff Post Books]
- 7 Classic Books with Happy Endings Even Scrooges Will Love [Huff Post Books]
Writers in Art: Jane Austen*
Here is our birthday girl as depicted by her sister, Cassandra:
Back-view watercolour of Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, 1804
*Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775.
[A Holiday Shopping Spree for the Bookworm] It’s a Wrap!
Let’s recap:
- Mrs Peggotty Arts
- Terrific Friends
- Uneek Doll Designs
- Obvious State
- Badly Drawn Authors
- Literature Lodge
Happy shopping!
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Maxwell Anderson/Charles Laughton Mashup
“If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.”-Maxwell Anderson (born 15 December 1888)
Charles Laughton (died 15 December 1962) by Carl Van Vechten. 1940.
[Book Nerd Art] In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers
In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers, 1904
I Was in the Middle Before I Knew That I Had Begun
I’d like to wish my husband a very happy fourth wedding anniversary!
Engagement Photo. November 2010.
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
A Quote from the Birthday Girl
Emily Dickinson Quote
Daily Diversion #241: Early Christmas Gift…
…to myself.
The Ballad of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz
“Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.”-Joe Strummer
Happy Birthday, James Thurber!
James Thurber, my hometown boy, was born on 8 December 1894:
James Thurber by Fred Palumbo, 1954
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”-James Thurber
Also check out: A Sunday Afternoon Virtual Tour of the (James) Thurber House Museum
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 