Maria Popova
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Virginia Woolf on How to Read a Book
Via Maria Popova’s Brainpickings (of course!), we get this amazing overview of Virginia Woolf’s amazing advice on how to read a book. The whole post is worth reading, but here’s a taste: To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of Continue reading
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The Magic of Storytelling
Any writer who heads out into the marketplace soon realizes that the marketplace is carved up into sections, organized by genre. Is your book science fiction? Fantasy? Steampunk? Women’s fiction? Literary fiction? Romance? Creative nonfiction? Biography? Historical fiction? Roughly you can think of this as “Where would you look for this in the bookstore?” This Continue reading
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Getting Dumped by Charlotte Brontë
From the Internet’s best magpie Maria Popova comes the tale of Charlotte Brontë turning down her suitor’s proposal of marriage. As Popova mentions, it’s hard to top this as an example of “it’s not you it’s me.” I’m not sure what my favorite part is, so I bolded a few. My dear Sir Before answering Continue reading
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Camus on Love
What a great idea! The always excellent Maria Popova has teamed up with the talented Wendy McNaughton to produce a print based on the notebooks of Camus. Now you can have Albert and his thoughts on love gracing your wall: Could this get any better? It can! 50% of the proceeds will be going Continue reading
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Flannery Speaks!
Have you ever been disappointed by hearing recordings of famous authors? No? Then maybe you haven’t heard enough of them. The sound of Hemingway bloviatiang about the time he “banged” Marlene Dietrich (“that Kraut”) is not something you can ever unhear. Fear not, reader! I’m not going to link to that. Instead, here’s an illuminating, uplifting experience: listening Continue reading
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Brightening Your Day With a Little Little My
You wake up. Grumble your way to work. Slug down some coffee. Read some horror show news about people cheating America. It’s the end of March. There’s snow on the ground. Do you really want to blog about these stories? Like this one? Workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud is so commonplace that it costs the Continue reading
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