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• Wednesday Wordplay: Pete Seeger tells it like it is

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 131
  Inspirational Quotes I don’t like the sound of all those lists he’s making – it’s like taking too many notes at school; you feel you’ve achieved something when you haven’t.             — Dodie Smith , I Capture the Castle , 1948 Education is when you read the fine print. ...
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• George Town, Penang

  
  Jonathan Fryer — Authority: 111
  I had intended to reach Ipoh today, but as the minivan I got from Hat Yai terminated in Penang, I decided to terminate there as well and so I will be ending the year in George Town. It’s 40 years since I was last on the island, though as I recall I didn’t linger even an hour in the capital then but instead headed ...
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• A Truth Universally Acknowledged: About Jane Austen

  
  Blowin' In The Wind — Authority: 438
  Janeites will love A Truth Universally Acknowledged, a collection of essays by 33 famous writers and critics acknowledging the genius of Jane Austen. Her admirers will have the pleasure of discovering their feelings shared by writers like Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, Somerset Maugham, CS Lewis, JB Priestley, ...
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• Wednesday Wordplay: Benjamin Franklin’s fear of Santa

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 131
  Inspirational Quotes The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.             — Dee Hock Never criticize a ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Translating Book to Film: Bright Star & The Razor’s Edge

  
  Eleventh Stack — Authority: 431
  There is a moment in the new Jane Campion film Bright Star , about the love affair of Fanny Brawne and John Keats , that is one of the finest, most moving cinematic moments I’ve seen in film in years.   In the scene, Fanny is told of the death of Keats, who had gone to Italy because of his failing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Let’s hear it for varied word choices!

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 121
  That ripple of titters you hear out there in the cosmos, dear readers, is the sound of every soul for whom I have ever critiqued a manuscript guffawing: the title of today’s post is something that I have been scrawling in the margins of manuscripts authored by writers living and dead since I first started proofing ...
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• The Perfect Christmas gift for book lovers and bibliophiles…

  
  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS — Authority: 436
  A friend of a friend of mine is making the best gifts imaginable for book lovers and bibliophiles: book purses. A book conservator by training, she hunts down attractive titles…removes the (typically damaged) contents, and turns the remains into these exquisite fashion accessories. Here’s one for the lover of Anne ...
  4 weeks ago

• Writing today ...

  
  Your Charmed Life — Authority: 109
  "A good style should show no signs of effort.  What is written should seem a happy accident." ~W. Somerset Maugham,  Summing Up , 1938 I applied for The Writers Room , a writing space in NYC. It is iconic. The waiting list probably goes until after the end of the Mayan calendar. Read this ...
  4 weeks ago

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