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April 19, 2014
LITERARY FEASTS! This is amazing…. A friend of this page named Tracey shared…
LITERARY FEASTS!
This is amazing….
A friend of this page named Tracey shared this with me, and I had to pass it along: images from a new book called "Fictitious Dishes", in which the designer Dinah Fried recreates famous meals from great works of literature. (Holden Caulfield's grilled cheese sandwich and malted milk are pictured here.)
What literary meals would you like to recreate? I want that giant-ass prize turkey from A Christmas Carol…
Author Brilliantly Recreates Famous Meals From Literature
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We're not normally coffee-table book people, but this? This is awesome. Designer Dinah Fried has just published a collection of fascinating images called Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals.
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April 18, 2014
Hanneke de Groot lives! A friend of this page made this and shared it with me t…
Hanneke de Groot lives!
A friend of this page made this and shared it with me the other day. It's a quote from my novel THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, where Hanneke the housekeeper gives our heroine Alma the goods on how to endure the suffering and sorrows of life.
Oh, how I loved writing Hanneke de Groot, in all her pragmatic, solid glory!
Grind your cares under your bootheels, my friends, and soldier on.
LG
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Rest in peace, Gabriel Garcia Márquez. I was so saddened to wake this morning t…
Rest in peace, Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
I was so saddened to wake this morning to this news. There are writers whom you discover at the most important junctions of your life, who shape and illustrate your imagination just when you most needed nourishment, and for me — in my hungry teens and early twenties — Garcia Márquez was just such a figure.
He's with the immortals now. Or maybe always was.
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April 17, 2014
I’m so honored to be on TIME magazine’s list of “The 21 Female Authors You Shoul…
I'm so honored to be on TIME magazine's list of "The 21 Female Authors You Should Be Reading"!
Check out the line-up:
How many of these writers do you read? I have some favorites on there…
LG
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This showed up on a friend’s Facebook page the other day and made me burst out l…
This showed up on a friend's Facebook page the other day and made me burst out laughing. I have owed this exact apology to many, many people during my life.
(And while we are at it, I'm sorry for what I said at 3pm when I really needed a nap, and I'm sorry for what I said at the end of that fourteen hour flight, and I'm sorry for what I said during basically the entire year of 2002 when I was getting that divorce…)
LG
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April 16, 2014
There’s girl power…and then there’s GIRL POWER! My friend Nichelle sent me th…
There's girl power…and then there's GIRL POWER!
My friend Nichelle sent me this image today of a 13 year old girl in Mongolia who hunts in the mountains with her eagle.
MYTHIC!
Here's the full story:
http://ift.tt/1j1URz3
It makes me feel better about absolutely everything, knowing that this girl walks the earth.
Onward,
LG
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THE DEDICATED RESEARCHER… Dear Ones: Somebody asked me on this page the othe…
THE DEDICATED RESEARCHER…
Dear Ones:
Somebody asked me on this page the other day if I actually went to Tahiti to do research for THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS. I did, my friends. I did.
It was a tough assignment. As you can see. But we all must make sacrifices for our art.
LG
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April 15, 2014
HAPPY READING! Heart, LG
HAPPY READING!
Heart,
LG
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A NOTE ON SWEARING. Dear Ones — I really love to swear. I grew up with swearin…
A NOTE ON SWEARING.
Dear Ones —
I really love to swear. I grew up with swearing buzzing around my ears in bumblebee-like charm, surrounded by a father, a grandfather and various uncles who were truly eloquent cursers. There is something that still makes me feel warm and nostalgic about hearing (and using) those wonderful, dramatic, comedic, delightfully adult words.
Sometimes I use those words on this page, and sometimes people get upset about it, which really surprises me because I always wonder, "But haven't you read my books? Surely you know by now that this is how I talk, right?"
But it also makes me feel tenderness toward those more delicate readers, because I find there to be something so quaint and almost charming about objecting to swear words. Whenever I hear a modern human being complaining about cursing, I feel like I'm watching somebody churn butter, dressed in a bonnet. Like: "Wow. People still do that?"
Yup. People still do that!
But I still love swearing.
Today, in honor of grown-up words, I will share with you my absolutely favorite historical writerly reply on the subject of cursing.
It comes from the great Jazz Age wit Alexander Wollcott (photo below). In 1941, Wollcott was starring in the hit play "The Man Who Came to Dinner". After a performance in Washington DC, he received a letter from a disgruntled audience member, complaining that the play would have been much more entertaining, and much more appropriate for respectable audiences, had it not contained "three unnecessary Goddamns."
Wollcott wrote back: "My dear Mr. Martin. This is to acknowledge your letter of March 6th, which really shocked me. When you speak of 'three unnecessary God damns', you imply that there is such a thing as a NECESSARY God damn. This, of course, is nonsense. A God damn is never a necessity. It is always a luxury. Yours most sincerely, Alexander Wollcott."
Ah, the luxury of the right word at the right time!
How sweet it is.
Onward,
LG
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