Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 60
February 8, 2013
myimaginarybrooklyn:
picadorbookroom:
Hilary Mantel on body...
Hilary Mantel on body image:
When I was thin I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like. When you sell clothes, you get very good at sizing people, but I had sized my customers as if they were fridge-freezers, or some other unnegotiable object, solid and with a height, width and depth. Fat is not like this. It is insidious and creepy. It is not a matter of chest-waist-hip measurement. You get fat knees, fat feet, fat in bits of you that you’d never thought of. You get in a panic, and believe in strange diets; you give up carbohydrate, then fat, then you subsist for a bit on breakfast cereal and fruit because it seems easier that way; then you find yourself weak at the fat knees, at risk of falling over in the street. You get up on winter mornings to pack ice cubes into a diet shake that tastes like some imbibed jelly, a primitive life form that will bud inside you. You throw tantrums in fat-lady shops, where the stock is grimy tat tacked together from cheap man-made fabric, choice of electric blue or cerise. You can’t get your legs into boots, or your feet into last year’s shoes.Read the rest of the excerpt from Hilary Mantel’s memoir, Giving Up the Ghost,on The Guardian.
[Photo credit: Jane Bown]
February 7, 2013
BALLPOINT PEN! YES, YES, YES!
likeafieldmouse:
Joan Salo -...
February 5, 2013
Providence from my backyard, looking into the small park, two...
Providence from my backyard, looking into the small park, two nights ago:
Were it July I would tell you to scan the flick and flutter in the glow of the lamplight for just the kinds of summer bugs—gnats and mosquitos—you should expect to find swarming there. But it is February and my gloved-hand shook while I took the video. There are no bugs to swarm in that golden cast, no bats to swoop and arc to catch them. Look closer into that green-yellow glow and what you’ll find isn’t so much the soft drift of snowflakes—something from a holiday movie—but the spat and sputter of ice, like a wayward toss of flaked salt.
It’s not summer, but I wonder if I might convince you of it.
I would, I could, have stood and watched it for longer than makes sense. But the dogs were disinterested, tugging their leashes, asking to go back inside.
mashabee:
From the brilliant series “Where Children Sleep” by...
From the brilliant series “Where Children Sleep” by James Mollison.
Top to bottom: China, New York, Senegal, Tokyo
February 3, 2013
February 2, 2013
The 2013 BFYA List is out and it’s packed with (102!)...
The 2013 BFYA List is out and it’s packed with (102!) fantastic titles, which is why it’s all the more awesome to find tMoCP among them. In other words: start adding to yer TBR piles yesterday, folks.
yourathenaeum:
I adore our current exhibition featuring books,...
I adore our current exhibition featuring books, posters and artifacts from the Dragonfly Bindery Studio in Woonsocket, RI. You can read more about it at our website. This vibrant display will be leaving our Philbrick Rare Book Room soon, so be sure to come in for a visit it while you can, bibliophiles!
January 29, 2013
So psyched to see Malinda Lo and A.S. King on here, and of...
So psyched to see Malinda Lo and A.S. King on here, and of course the ALA award-sweeping ARISTOTLE and DANTE. (And am also thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to find CAM POST in this stellar top 10.)
The Top 10 titles on the American Library Association’s 2013 Rainbow List, recognizing GLBT books for children and teens.
(Including my own Adaptation! Yay!)
(ETA: And The Letter Q, which I and many other writers are in!)
January 23, 2013
powells:
You’re going to want to watch this book trailer....
You’re going to want to watch this book trailer. (Trust us.) Then, read John Kenney’s blog post about the making of this commercial for his debut novel, Truth in Advertising.
January 21, 2013
exhibition-ism:
Swedish artist Michael Johansson plays...
Swedish artist Michael Johansson plays real-life Tetris with these perfectly assembled color coordinated cubes
