This #beer may be hard evidence of a higher power. #lazymagnolia #jeffersonstout
We ate for the first time at Texas de Brazil. I had 9 kinds of red meat and an angioplasty.
#cat bunk beds
#vintage horsehair shoe brush from weird little antique store in #memphis. #shoeshinebidness
Barry Wolverton interview on Author Turf
In this free-ranging interview with Brittney Breakey’s Author Turf, learn the best writing advice I’ve gotten, and why I’d rather be a cat than a dog.
I love Tove Jansson’s Moomin books. I love Lewis Carroll. And now I discover that Jansson illustrated a stand-alone edition of The Hunting of the Snark, originally published in 1959, recently reissued by the British publisher Salt. I’ve been told Jansson also illustrated Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit, too, also recently reissued. I am off to hunt these books!
In March I gave birth to a puffin named Lockley, and now I have adopted a puffin named “M” through Audubon’s Project Puffin. So proud.
A superb — or should I say absurd? — addition to the library! For children between the ages of 0 and a million.
My one slight disappointment is that “The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo” is omitted, probably b/c of length, but you should fly to your favorite search engine to read how Lady Jingly is wooed with such brilliant stanzas as this:
“On this Coast of Coromandel
Shrimps and watercresses grow,
Prawns are plentiful and cheap,”
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
“You shall have my chairs and candle,
And my jug without a handle!
Gaze upon the rolling deep
(Fish is plentiful and cheap);
As the sea, my love is deep!”
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo,
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
This is a fascinating exchange between Fitzgerald and Perkins about The Great Gatsby, a book I think is just about perfect, and which I insist is the true progenitor of Mad Men’s Don Draper.
