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Artsy August Strindberg Died 101 Years Ago Today4 comments

maedez wrote 1 week ago: Writer-painter August Strindberg died on 14 May 1912. Here he is, looking suitably bohemian… A … more →

Tags: writing, Writers, Books, Quotes, Milestones, Reading, Shopping, Photographs, August Strindberg

Dead White Guy Pseudonyms

ClearlyWriting wrote 2 weeks ago: “Cat in the Hat” Third Printing Front Cover (Photo credit: danxoneil) Since I am an alre … more →

Tags: writing, Anthony Burgess, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Seuss, Famous Authors, GEORGE ORWELL, History, James Herriot, Lewis Carroll

[Book Nerd Links] Writers' Weird Obsessions12 comments

maedez wrote 3 weeks ago: The Literary Figures With the Weirdest Obsessions [courtesy Flavorwire] Who do you think takes the p … more →

Tags: writing, Links, Writers, Books, Reading

Collections : Yes please!

Write, She Wrote. wrote 2 months ago: I’m a collector.  I have a particularly soft spot for all things literature-related.  More spe … more →

Tags: COLLECTIONS, Wish List, Edgar Allan Poe, Etsy, Literature, Wish List, Collection, Unique, tea drinking

Vita Sackville-West Ponders Her 121st Birthday

maedez wrote 2 months ago: Vita Sackville-West was born on 9 March 1892. Birthday girl Vita Sackville-West in 1916. QUOTE: … more →

Tags: writing, Books, Writers, Quotes, Milestones, Reading, Shopping, Birthdays

The Transcendental Louisa May Alcott Died 125 Years Ago Today2 comments

maedez wrote 2 months ago: Louisa May Alcott died on 6 March 1888. Here she is, at the quarter-century mark, looking utterly ca … more →

Tags: writing, Writers, Books, Quotes, Milestones, Reading, Shopping, Art, Louisa May Alcott

A Young, Hopeful D.H. Lawrence Looked to the Future...5 comments

maedez wrote 2 months ago: …and died on this day, 2 March, 1930. D.H. Lawrence, 1906. QUOTE: “I cannot cure myself … more →

Tags: Shopping for the Bookworm, Writers, writing, Books, Milestones, Novels, photos, Quotes, Reading

Henry James, Once a Dapper Young Man, Died 97 Years Ago Today13 comments

maedez wrote 2 months ago: Henry James died on 28 February 1916. He wasn’t always a humourless looking middle-aged man. B … more →

Tags: writing, Writers, Quotes, Milestones, Reading, Shopping, Literature, Fashion, Photographs

Junky Love

insidemybeatnikbrain wrote 3 months ago: I wish that there was a methadone clinic… for love. I am addicted to you. I lie awake like a junky I … more →

Tags: Poetry, Addiction, Beatnik, crush on a dead guy, dead poets, Jack Kerouac, junky, kerouac, literary addiction

Happy Birthday Edna St. Vincent Millay, You Timeless Beauty19 comments

maedez wrote 3 months ago: Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892, with looks as timeless as the poems she grew u … more →

Tags: Writers, writing, Books, Quotes, Milestones, Poetry, Reading, Shopping, Poets

Sylvia Plath's Death: Five Decades Have Gone By in a Mad, Mad Whirl6 comments

maedez wrote 3 months ago: “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to b … more →

Tags: writing, Writers, Books, Quotes, Poetry, Reading, Literature, Poets, Deaths

Limited number of Dead Writers bottles back in stock

sweetteaapothecary wrote 3 months ago: This is all I have until Valentine’s Day. After that more will be available. Thanks everyone f … more →

Tags: dead writers perfume, Etsy, handmade perfume, Sweet Tea Apothecary

So Many Dead Writers, So Little Time3 comments

sweetteaapothecary wrote 3 months ago: So this is what I’m up to today. … more →

Tags: My perfumes, Book Perfume, Etsy, Fitzgerald, handmade perfume, Poe, scent locket

BookRiot is Causing a Riot in My Shop!! 4 comments

sweetteaapothecary wrote 3 months ago: As an Etsy shop owner, it’s always fun when you wake up in the morning to hundreds of new view … more →

Tags: My perfumes, Publicity, author perfume, Book Perfume, Book Reviews, BookRiot, Etsy, Etsy Shop, Sweet Tea Apothecary

Reading Life of Pi, again

Lillian Y Wong wrote 4 months ago: from amazon.ca It is a pleasure to say that Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, is one of the few books … more →

Tags: Film and lyw, Literature, lyw, lillian y wong, Fiction, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Literary Imagination, Literature Studies

Dead Writers Challenge24 comments

Chatter Master wrote 4 months ago: I’m newly intrigued by dead writers. I don’t normally give “reviews” of book … more →

Tags: Life chatter, Blogging, writing, husband, Alcohol, Laura Ingalls Wilder, kindle, Literature, AK Turner

He's Not Famous He's Dead by John McKernan

maryamchahine wrote 6 months ago: The journal, Imitation Fruit, is quickly becoming one of my favorite literary journals. They are dif … more →

Tags: Poems, Poetry, Books, writers, death, Poems, Life, John McKernan, Authors

The Veil Has Lifted...Happy Halloween!

sweetteaapothecary wrote 6 months ago: Binx is either afraid of the pumpkin or putting a curse on you with her eyes. Someone up there loves … more →

Tags: Distractions, Historical awesomeness, Halloween, Samhain, History, Binx, Holidays

elizabethkuklenyik wrote 7 months ago: 31. I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafk … more →

Tags: kafka, roberto bolaño, end of the world, Poetry


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