Favorite Tweets:
Favorite Search Terms:
- bfg roald dahl monopoly: WHAT! WHERE! Would the pieces be “BoneCruncher,” GizzardGulper,” and MeatDripper.” And what about the places: SnozzCumbers Country, FrobScottle Stage, Phizzwizard Land. How wonderful.
- man in holden caulfield winter hat: I feel like this is a want-ad on Craigslist (pre-Craigslist-killer era). Look on e-harmony, hipsters really like to look like Holden Caulfield.
- cassie hunter gives a boy a terrible clanging: I’m just glad that there are powerful Cassie’s out there.
- books with “bird” in the title: Ah, so there are others like me.
- two birds were sitting on a barbwire fence and one had a typewriter and one was eating food, the one said pass the salt: this is a literal google. (google as verb). Someone has too much time on their hands.
Book News:
- “Just the Facts” an opinion piece about telling the truth in Creative Nonfiction by Danny Heitman @ NY Times.
- Scroll to the bottom to read Toni Morrison’s witty and biting remarks in interview @ USA Today
Maurice Sendek passes away. Let out your terrible roar & wild rumpus. I’m going to read Where the Wild Things Are to my nephew this week and I will be reading it with extra fierceness so that he carries it on to the next generation. Articles from NPR. Morning Edition Podcast. The Guardian on Sendek. Rosenbach Museum & Library Collection on Maurice Sendek. Visit today for free.
Letters of Note has a letter from Sendek’s editor to a librarian who burned In the Night Kitchen. Here is Sendek’s obituary in the NY Times and his interview with Fresh Air (NPR) in December. The wonderful thing about Maurice Sendek is that he was always humble about his art, which makes him even more of a legend. Thank you Tea & Paper for sharing these links.
- Interview @ The Paris Review with Louise Erdrich.
- Follow books live @ Books Depository.
- Top 10 Best Memoirs about Mothers @ Flavorwire
- Neil Gaiman does journaling and This American Life @ Neil Gaiman.
Aimee Bender’s shelf @ Strand Bookstore- Ten Best First Lines in Fiction @ The Guardian
- Brown’s Rare Book Store finds Paul Revere @ NY Times
- Book Club Girl offers GREAT E-books for $2.99 this week @ Indiebound
- Everyone loves a good statistic: What are your odds for winning The Booker @ The Millions
- Dymock’s 101 Best Books Voted by Australian Public. I miss Dymocks.
- Tracy K. Smith & David Bowie @ 360 Studio
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Chalkboard Mug (I already have a dry erase mug so I might as well indulge) @ Book Riot.
- Watch Book People Unite’s campaign to get kids reading @ Goodreads
- Penguin not only designs classy covers, but erects historic monuments from books. Visit Bookhenge @ Tumblr.
- The Pen Literary Festival runs through Sunday. Finish your finals, and fly out.
- Kickstarter Campaign for WS Merwin documentary. Visit and learn here.
- The Loft Literary Center is having a poetry conference May 18-20. Visit here for full details.
- Oprah’s 9 Lessons from Fictional Women @ O.
- Top 10 Books that take you traveling @ The Guardian
- Poetic Representations of the Holocaust @ 2 Jacket
- Five Stories about Jackie O. @ Christian Science Monitor
- Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry @ Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
- What America’s Reading: Best Sellers by City @ The Daily Beast
- John Updike on Ethics and Poetics of Criticism @ Brain Pickings
- Highlight of Poetry Finalists for Best Translated Book Award @ Three Percent
- ShamWow the book? Yes. Does it have a book Trailer? YES. @ Huff Post.
- 50 Things to Make from Old Books @ Pinterest
- Picking your tablet by your personality @ Yahoo.
- What Makes a Good Poem: The Child Perspective @ Poetry Foundation
- Can Writing Nonfiction Hurt the Ones You Love? (Yes, duh).
Lastly; if you are a follower of this blog from NC, please vote today. I would particularly like you to vote AGAINST Amendment 1 – The Marriage Amendment because NO ONE should suffer, or be treated unfairly, under the freedom of the US. If anything, do your research.
