12 Awesome College Courses & More (Fun Friday: Weekend Edition)
Daisy, You’re a Drip, Dear: Detestable Literary Characters Who Are Not Technically Villains 1. Every character in Wuthering Heights. Right on. *** It may be a Fun Friday post, but this is also...
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Smencils are minty-fresh smelling writing impliments meant to help stimulate the brain and improve one’s focus. *** 25 Signs You’re Addicted To Books *** Uncomfortable Truths: Five Authors Who Do Not...
View ArticleWhat Does Your Favorite Shakespeare Play Say About You? & More (Fun Friday)
Teju Cole: If you had to focus on just one living writer or musician, who would it be? Writers and journalists respond to the question posed by the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning writer Mine: Joyce Carol...
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Game of Cones is a real thing, as are… Game Of Thrones Merchandise: 9 Weirdest Official Tie-ins *** Charles Burns. Paul Auster, 2005. Image courtesy Adam Baumgold Fine Art. Ekaterina Panikanova’s...
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Can You Guess These Amazing Literary Tattoos? This is worth looking at if only for the horrifying last tattoo. *** Maurice Sendak Illustrates Tolstoy *** Write the Great American Novel In 10 Easy Steps...
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This rejection of Gertrude Stein’s manuscript is a little harsh. *** Marvel Comics Mashes Up Superheroes and Chick Lit — And It Sort of Works This is… odd. *** 50 Best Book Covers Of 2012: Design...
View ArticleIf You Give a Mouse Rat a Cookie & More (Fun Friday)
Ben Jonson begins Twitter travel journal, rather late The day-to-day happenings on a public progress made by Jonson from London to Scotland in July 1618 will be brought to modern readers on...
View ArticleRepurposing Books & More (Fun Friday 1 of 2)
28 “Favorite” Books That Are Huge Red Flags pissed off some people, but I found it pretty funny. People get that it’s supposed to be funny, right? *** Top 10 Movies Starring Books *** What Your...
View ArticleThe Sexiest Men of Hollywood Read Children’s Stories & More (Fun Friday)
Homemade Book Dress Goes Viral *** Diversity in children’s books -> ouch. HOWEVER, I haven’t seen anyone point out yet that “which leaves 93% Caucasian” is not terribly well thought out… unless...
View ArticleSuper Depressing Novelist Game & more (Fun Friday)
Funny Money: Authors on Notes In honor of the Bank of England’s fine decision to place Jane Austen on the British £10 note in 2017, AbeBooks is celebrating other literary giants by adding them to...
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