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
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  Hemingway Lookalikes @ Sloppy Joe’s Bar

  Hemingway Lookalike Competition @ Guardian

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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Girl Who Inspired Alice @ Nouvella

  Meet the Girl who Inspired Alice in Wonderland @ Nouvella

• On Being a Winter Girl @ Isabel Bandeira
• 4 Things Killing Your Creativity @ Oprah
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  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