Dear A—
Every rejection letter starts something like this: ”Dear Ms. Jones, I am sorry to tell you that we are unable to offer you a fellowship/residency/admissions/whatever.” Then there is a statement like this, “We received a GAZILLION submissions from qualified applicants but we were only able…
This is page 23 of the manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray (written, of course, in Oscar Wilde’s hand).
(via fuckyeahmanuscripts)
Source: thefallofkain
We’re no strangers to hosting famous authors at Politics & Prose. But yesterday we were honored to host First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday morning for a signing of her bestselling book American Grown. As you can tell from the expressions on our staff members’ and owners’ faces…yeah, it was pretty great.
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Reader Submission by David Leeds
Know your tome – anatomy of the book. Pair with how a book is made, from antiquity to the Middle Ages to today.
Twenty years later and I’m back to picking out the color of my headbands.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
— Henry David Thoreau
A haiku from the article: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star
Since, being a woman, I can’t be taken altogether seriously by the sort of male critics who rank writers 1, 2, 3 in the public press, I am free, I suppose, to do as I like.
This is why you see so many tired booksellers blearily singing the alphabet song as we shelve.
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Recommended Viewing: a 1952 documentary about William Faulkner and his hometown.
by Kikyz1313
“No one took this further, with more imagination and daring…At a time when American groups would often dress down—affluent suburban kids disguised...
