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The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy

rockymountainreader wrote 2 hours ago: The Merry Tattle Of The Nuns Of Poissy By Honore de Balzac The Abbey of Poissy has been rendered fam … more →

Tags: short- short stories, Writers

Citatul zilei

Alina Gâdoiu wrote 1 week ago: “A iubi nu înseamnă oare a şti să pledezi, să cerşeşti, să aştepţi?” – Honore de B … more →

Tags: Cugetari, arthur ashe

Comédie Humaine

Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 week ago: In a conversation about scroti: “I said, ‘I read a book about Sagaponac by Honoré de Bal … more →

Tags: Almanacco Citato [Quotes], Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor, ballsack

Citatul zilei

Alina Gâdoiu wrote 1 month ago: “Femeile văd tot sau nu văd nimic, după dispoziţia sufletească; iubirea este singura lor lumin … more →

Tags: Cugetari

Billionaires

recision wrote 1 month ago: Global Ruling Class: Billionaires and how they “made it” ~ by Prof James Petras Even as … more →

Tags: revolution, billionaires, crimes, fortunes

Film watch list: What have I been watching?!?

mitchshin wrote 1 month ago: Back from a long hiatus. What have I been watching thus far? Well… The Proposal – Sandra … more →

Tags: films, Rants and Raves, Social commentary, Film Reviews, Culture, Popular Culture, Funemployed geek, Entertainment, Sandra Bullock

Reading list: What I have been reading for the past few days....

mitchshin wrote 1 month ago: So I have survived three typhoons in the Philippines and am waiting for a new typhoon off the east c … more →

Tags: Rants and Raves, Social commentary, Culture, Popular Culture, Funemployed geek, Books, Entertainment, Fantasy, Literature

scenes from the writing life: dinner with balzac and other insane people

peter wrote 2 months ago:   So the next time you hear a writer on the radio or catch him on the tube or watch him on the … more →

Tags: French Literature, scenes from the writing life, Alexander von Humboldt

Researching Cousin Bette: Prologue

theantaeuscompany wrote 2 months ago: I admit that I am a research junkie. So when Jeanie asked for help in researching COUSIN BETTE, it w … more →

Tags: cousin bette, Mainstage Productions, Jeanie Hackett, Jeffrey Hatcher

a tragedy in miniature: short fiction by stig dagerman

peter wrote 4 months ago: In culling my library over the weekend I came across an old issue of the once-great Grand Street, wh … more →

Tags: excerpts & quotations, film, Franz Kafka, Graham Greene, Short Stories, to kill a child, Stig Dagerman, Swedish literature

Motherhood is not a cakewalk...

Sabitha Denis wrote 5 months ago: motherhood My friends told me their motherhood experiences when I was still a spinster and I thought … more →

Tags: Life, Pregnancy, mom and child, “Mother & Baby Care”, husband, Jane Seymour, Robert Browning, Jessica Lange, Motherhood

I Write the Words [Barry Manilow!]

Eugene O'Brien wrote 5 months ago: ~ by Eugene O’Brien Like a photograph from the 1830s, I have developed oh-so-slowly in my craf … more →

Tags: About Writing, Authors, Charles Dickens, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, Joe Haldeman, The Forever War

Who are Balzac's Maugrabins?

Mike Shapiro wrote 5 months ago: Daniel called my attention to a problem of definition for Monday’s quiz: although you are aske … more →

Tags: Reading, Vocabulary, Short Stories, 2009

guilty pleasures (summer reading)

peter wrote 6 months ago: jake arnott’s johnny come home set in the london of the early 1970s, jake arnott’s johnny come home … more →

Tags: English Literature, the city, book cover art, London, Jake Arnott, johnny come home, guy debord. r.d. laing, Terrorism, Stewart Home

Balzac, Honoré de (1834) La Recherche de l'Absolu (The Quest of the Absolute)

Ben wrote 6 months ago: La Recherche de l’Absolu (The Quest of the Absolute) (1834) Honoré de Balzac Thompson Publishi … more →

Tags: La Comédie humaine, La Recherche de l'Absolu, The Quest of the Absolute, Etudes Philosophique

Coffee quotes

Emily wrote 7 months ago: I went to this website yesterday and found hilarious coffee quotes.  I’ve posted my favorite b … more →

Tags: Humor, Fun, Quotes, Coffee, coffee quotes, black coffee, specialty coffee, "The Pleasures and Pains fo Coffee", josephin baker

Honore De Balzac

iapetus wrote 7 months ago: was born 210 years ago today, in France, a skeptic & prolific novelist, “Vocations which w … more →

Tags: People, Milestones, Quotes, Authors, France, Writers, Existence, colors, Skeptics

more Adam Bede9 comments

verbivore wrote 7 months ago: Thankfully, there wasn’t a kitten to be seen in those last 100 pages of Adam Bede – my opinion of Ge … more →

Tags: George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Reading Notes

Literary Birthdays - Week of May 17 - 231 comment

litbirthdays wrote 7 months ago: NEW! Check out LitBirthdays birthday of the day on Twitter Sunday May 17 Dennis Potter (b. 1935) … more →

Tags: Literature, famous writers birthdays, songwriters birthdays, poets birthdays, Famous Birthdays, novelist birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle, Omar Khayyam, dennis potter


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