Favorite Tweets:
Favorite Search Terms:
- Cassie sparkles Michigan: I’m not sure if you’re trying to find your long lost love via google, or just letting me know that Michigan will crown me and let me wave from a pageant float covered in sparkles and frankincense. Either way, I’m for this search – I back your stalker ways, and your fourth grade crush on Cassie Sparkle. I can only imagine what her yearbook picture looks like
- toddler lawn furniture: This gives me THE BEST mental image, but what am I…Target?
- free southern belle coloring pages: Ya’ll, send those right over, please and thank you. (This is me curtsying. I also own a bonnet).
- Grammar humor: what is my mind doing today. All of a sudden two men with pocket watches in the slit of their vests, with spectacles resting at the hook of their nose are drinking tea and har-har-ing. (Har-har, dear, har-har: when used in a sentence).
Book News:
- Poet Laureate working on Memoir (2014) @ Washington Post
- Famous Artist’s Letters about Draw Something (This is Sarcasm) @ McSweeney’s
- No More Mommy Porn for EL James @ London Evening Standard
- Fitzgerald Writes about Great Gatsby @ Letters of Note
- Semicolons: A Love Story (featuring Kurt Vonnegut) @ New York Times
- Libraries Re-invent Themselves for the Future @ Times
-
Hemingway Lookalikes @ Sloppy Joe’s Bar
Hemingway Lookalike Competition @ Guardian
-
Biblioclasm: The practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material and media. @ The Project Twins
Unusual Words Project @ The Project Twins
- Sizzling Summer Reads with Janet Evanovich & Charlaine Harris @ The Today Show
- Faulkner in Color @ The Guardian
- Literary Borough’s: Philly @ Ploughshares
- The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Gets a Makeover @ Huff Post
- Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry # 88 @ Paris Review
- Future of American Fiction @ Flavorwire
- Tyrannical World of Thomas the Tank Engine @ The Guardian
- Harry Potter Fans Parody GaGa (who by the way has a paper doll cut-out book. I found it at B&N today) @ Huff Post
- Library of Congress: 88 Books that Shaped America @ Los Angeles Times
- Daily Book Pic @ Book Riot
- Independent Bookstores Celebrated with Contest @ Huff Post
- Faulkner Interview Found in Paris Review @ Atlantic
- Jamaica Does Literary Festival @All Things Considered
- Priceless Stolen Book Found in Garage @ Huff Post
- Overheard at the Comic Book Store @ Huff Post
- Can You Teach Creative Writing @ The Guardian
-
Bloody Chamber by Sam Kerwin for Book Illustration Competition @ Huff Post
Useful Spelling Rules for Childhood @ Ragan’s PR Daily
- Encourage Reluctant Readers @ The Guardian
-
Jane Austen Ring for Auction
Jane Austen Ring for Auction @ Los Angeles Times
- A Beginner’s Guide to Alice Munro @ The Millions
- Author Get Panned & Strikes Back @ Salon
- 10 Most Bizarre Pieces of Literary Merch @ Lit Reactor
- Haunting Summer Books @ Huff Post
- Children’s Books Reflect Harsh Reality @ The Guardian
- Lost Endings to The Great Gatsby @ Slate
- Writers’ Favorites: Literary Sex Scenes @ The Guardian
- Cheryl Strayed Interview @ The Rumpus
- The Nature of Cinderella @ LA Review of Books
-
Hamartia: The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall. Postcard @ The Project Twins
Wasteland App @ Poetry Daily
- Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury @ Byliner
- Literary Map of England @ Austenonly
- One-Star Statements on Amazon @ The Morning News
- Calvino’s 14 Definitions of What Makes a Classic @ The Atlantic
- Letter to a Young Poet @ Letters of Note
- Michael Cunningham Talks about Not Awarding a Pulitzer in Fiction @ The New Yorker
- William Faulkner Died 50 Years Ago This Week. He Reads his Speech for the Pulitzer Here @ Open Culture
- Famous Literary Characters Almost Named Something Else @ Mental_Floss
- First Lines of Zadie Smith’s New Novel @ The Millions
-
Girl Who Inspired Alice @ Nouvella
- On Being a Winter Girl @ Isabel Bandeira
- 4 Things Killing Your Creativity @ Oprah
-
JD Salinger Poster @ Short LIst
Author Quote Posters @ Short List
- Shel Silverstein on Johnny Carson @ Youtube
- My Fourth of July by Charles Simic @ New York Review of Books
- Underground New York Public Library @ NYPL
- Dear Sugar, Write like a Mother EFFER @ The Rumpus
- Beatrix Potter Illustrated @ Huff Post
- World’s Tiniest Book @ The National
- Texts from Jane Eyre @ The Hairpin
- 5 Books to Inspire Innovation @ NPR
