Articles tagged “friday frivolity”
An excellent writer’s retreat, by Grant Snider.
Very cool: 1970s German book posters by Gunter Rambow.
Literary references on The Simpsons.
Slang terms for having sex, through history: now in handy chart form!
I like big books and I cannot lie.
Your female characters are so strong…
How do you read a poem consisting only of punctuation? I think the answer is ‘?’
Here are the books we stopped reading, and where we stopped reading them.
Book hangovers are a thing.
26 excellent book dedications.
I wonder what it’s like to be a housekeeper. I bet it’s really interesting and authentic, probably. My prestigious literary novel.
Some excellent vintage library posters.
Book Towns: where reading is the reason to live.
The 8 best literary impostors.
Lego Stories: books, etc, reimagined in lego.
People trying to write in art.
Call me, Ishmael: a fun new literary project.
An artist bio gets real. (Too real?)
The report cards of famous authors.
“You are a parasite,” Alice said. Ayn Rand’s Alice in Wonderland.
Cartoonist Bob Eckstein drew his favourite bookshops for the New Yorker.
Harvard confirms book is bound in human skin. (This headline makes me happier than it should.)
‘I grow pissed…I grow pissed…’ More drunk texts from famous authors.
Lovely Read more
10 writers and their favourite drinks.
Men can be muses, too, you know.
The novel is dead, apparently, so it should probably have an epitaph or two.
John Green tells us 47 charming facts about children’s books.
The 25 greatest homes in literature. (Whither Pemberley, the whole reason for the love story in Pride and Prejudice? Don’t try to tell me Lizzie would still have fallen for Darcy without seeing his swell digs.)
