From Shakespeare as hipster playwright in a waistcoat, to Elizabeth I in a power suit.
“How historical figures would have looked today” (The Guardian)
Kid Publisher
- ME: You in jammies yet?
- KIDDO: Nope.
- ME: What'cha doing in there?
- KIDDO: Trying to make a book.
- ME: Well then, take your time.
"Sleep is good and books are better."
— George R.R. Martin (via fawun)
(Source: nathanielstuart, via bookporn)
Getting ready for tonight! twitter.com/ROBERTSCHENKKA…
— ROBERT SCHENKKAN (@ROBERTSCHENKKAN) March 4, 2013
"Two plays, Dan O’Brien’s “Body of an American” and Robert Schenkkan’s “All the Way,” are the inaugural winners of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, Columbia University and one of the late senator’s sisters, Jean Kennedy Smith, will announce on Friday. The two writers will each receive $50,000 and collaborate with Columbia librarians to create Web sites featuring scholarly articles and discussion relating to the content of the plays."
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First Winners of Kennedy Playwriting Prize Announced - NYTimes.com
Let’s get a round of applause for Oregon’s double-win!
This has been on my wishlist since I saw the exhibit. Hint, hint darlings. (via Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective)
"Things you think you’re saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again."
— Ken Kesey (via theparisreview)
(via whirl-on)
Yes, this book. Yes, this reader. Yes, this setting.
“Sexing the Cherry,” by Jeanette Winterson (by She Said Unprintable Things)
Oregon
- A NEED SO BEAUTIFUL by Suzanne Young
- GIRL, STOLEN by April Henry
- IF I STAY by Gayle Forman
- RECOVERY ROAD by Blake Nelson
- THE DAY BEFORE by Lisa Schroeder
- USES FOR BOYS by Erica Lorraine Scheidt
“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”
—George Eliot
What my partner’s “autographed” copy is lacking. Again, what the fuck, Powell’s. (via IMG_3730 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)
