Wolverton Hill

This #beer may be hard evidence of a higher power. #lazymagnolia...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:15:38 -0400

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...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:01:57 -0400

We ate for the first time at Texas de Brazil. I had 9 kinds of red meat and an angioplasty.

#cat bunk beds

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:46:10 -0400

#cat bunk beds

#vintage horsehair shoe brush from weird little antique store in...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 11:24:22 -0400

#vintage horsehair shoe brush from weird little antique store in #memphis. #shoeshinebidness

Barry Wolverton interview on Author Turf

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:00:01 -0400

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....

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:02:54 -0400

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...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:56:23 -0400

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.

theparisreview: RIP Encyclopedia Brown author Donald J. Sobol.

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:59:07 -0400

theparisreview:

RIP Encyclopedia Brown author Donald J. Sobol.

A superb — or should I say absurd? — addition to the library!...

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:23:17 -0400

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

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:19:31 -0400

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.

Egbert’s latest acquisition for our library. The Paris...

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:31:54 -0400

Egbert’s latest acquisition for our library. The Paris Review’s Art of Fiction/Poetry/Criticism interviews are, in my opinion, the best of their kind. And P.S., Paris Review, Egbert wants to know why he or any other walrus scholar hasn’t been interviewed yet.

I like to think a writer as daring as Virginia Woolf might have...

Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:29:42 -0400

I like to think a writer as daring as Virginia Woolf might have embraced eBooks. But perhaps that’s just my way of justifying my recent reversal of opinion. Pictured is my new Nook with GlowLight, along with Susan Cooper’s brilliant Dark Is Rising series. I downloaded them all when I decided to re-read the books and discovered that my paperbacks were in various states of disrepair or unreadably small print.

The cover of my first book, in stores now. The epic saga of an...

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:58:00 -0400

The cover of my first book, in stores now. The epic saga of an odd, unlikely hero (think The Hobbit) that combines adventure, humor, and mythology into one brightly colored tale.

heyoscarwilde: In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:07:11 -0400

heyoscarwilde:

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Moby Dick illustrated by Jim Kay :: via the-book-show.blogspot.fr