Shopping for the Bookworm: A Literary Road Trip #1-A Dream of Travel
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”-Augustine of Hippo I’m going on a road trip in June. I will likely arrive in Savannah with a lap full of granola bar crumbs and a...
View Article[Book Nerd Links] Dangerdust: Literary Chalk Art, by Stealth
Each Week, Two Anonymous Students Sneak into a Classroom and Proceed to Blow Everyone’s Mind [courtesy viralnova] An interesting story from my hometown. I love this duo’s use of literary quotes and...
View Article[Book Nerd Links] The Daily Rituals of Famous Writers
The Daily Rituals of Famous Writers [courtesy ShortList] It’s quite interesting, although I could do without the judgmental tone about the de Beauvoir-Sartre relationship.
View Article[Alternative Muses] Style Guide: Schokko with a Red Hat
Schokko with a Red Hat by Alexej Jawlensky is my favourite painting. She lives at the Columbus Museum of Art: I like to visit her when I go home. Schokko with a Red Hat by Alexej Jawlensky, 1909....
View Article[Book Nerd Links] Old Masters at the Top of Their Game
Old Masters at the Top of Their Game [The New York Times Magazine] These people are, simply, extraordinary. Their dedication to their work is awe-inspiring.
View ArticleWriting Goals for 2015
My writing goals for 2015 are the same as they were for 2014. Here they are again, in case you missed them last year: Goal #1 Goal #2 Goal #3 Goal #4 Goal #5 Goal #6 Goal #7
View ArticleProfile: Diana Shafer of Terrific Friends
Diana Shafer is the talented artist behind Terrific Friends and sponsor of our Edgar Allan Poe Print Giveaway. She most graciously agreed to tell us a bit more about herself, in her own words. ** I...
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“Usually I circle around an idea, coming at it from many angles. In the process it seems to me as valid to move from abstraction towards realism and back again as it is for a poet to move from Lyric to...
View ArticleThree Day Quote Challenge-Day One
Robert McAlmon Quote This quote comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the sidebar. Creatively, it has been my guiding light for more than a decade. I think about it nearly every time I sit down...
View ArticleThree Day Quote Challenge-Day Two
“What appeals to me most is an idea expressed by Eluard. He has a line about there being another world, but it’s in this one. And Raymond Queneau said the world is not what it seems–but it isn’t...
View ArticleTruman Capote: Inner Music
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.”-Truman Capote
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