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February 10, 2013

millionsmillions:

Scared of being lonely this Valentine’s Day?...



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Scared of being lonely this Valentine’s Day? If you pre-order Sam Pink’s new novel, Rontel, the author will cheer you up with a personalized sexy text message. (It’s also worth mentioning that Electric Lit is publishing the novel as their first e-book.)

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Published on February 10, 2013 10:01

What's the Best Sentence You Read this Week?

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We’re back on Branch this week for another round. Share your favorites here.


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Published on February 10, 2013 08:00

February 9, 2013

"Women are usually better than men at writing about women, because women have felt the distinct stab..."

“Women are usually better than men at writing about women, because women have felt the distinct stab in the soul that happens when their gender is pulverized through oppressive language. It is time to let women write about their own gender and contribute to the recording of their own literary history. In writing poorly, male writers tacitly admit that women can do a better job.”

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Sure, male journalists are generally not the best when it comes to writing about women, but things have gotten better in the last few years, right? Maybe not. (via millionsmillions)


Story Girl wants to agree, not to say she’s read tons of great books about women written by men…

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Published on February 09, 2013 10:01

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A beautiful mess (by Mariam Kalandarishvili)



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A beautiful mess (by Mariam Kalandarishvili)


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Published on February 09, 2013 08:48

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“We knew as soon as we set foot in...



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“We knew as soon as we set foot in Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in SoHo that we wanted to be married there. It’s located in a gorgeous New York townhouse on a classic cobblestone street. The bookstore space was everything we wanted: intimate, romantic, and, best of all, filled with books.” (via Manhattan Wedding from Olya Vysotskaya Photography | Style Me Pretty)


Gorgeous photos of a gorgeous couple getting married in the bookstore! (More info on Housing Works weddings and rentals here.)


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Published on February 09, 2013 08:48

Marilyn Monroe, 1953, an extraordinary photo by Ben...




Marilyn Monroe, 1953, an extraordinary photo by Ben Ross


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Published on February 09, 2013 08:01

Sugar cookie promotion for Penny Kim’s Desert Wedding,...



Sugar cookie promotion for Penny Kim’s Desert Wedding, thanks to @Kdiariesblog. SGP hearts reader reviews!

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Published on February 09, 2013 07:06

Every photographer should give you a goodie bag with your...



Every photographer should give you a goodie bag with your author’s headshot prints! @preciouswisdomphotography!

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Published on February 09, 2013 06:53

February 8, 2013

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Famous Notebooks
1. Mark Twain - “He had his...









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Famous Notebooks


1. Mark Twain - “He had his leather bound notebooks custom made according to his own design idea. Each page had a tab; once a page had been used, he would tear off its tab, allowing him to easily find the next blank page for his jottings”


2. Charles Darwin - “The notebooks were filled with memorandum to himself on things to look further into, questions he wanted to answer, scientific speculations, notes on the many books he was currently reading, natural observations, sketches, and lists of the books he had read and wanted to read. But the progression is far from orderly: the entries are chaotically arranged and wide-ranging; they jump from one scientific subject to the next and are interspersed with notes on correspondences and conversations. He would rest the notebook on his desk and write horizontally down the page with a pen, and, like Isaac Newton, he would sometimes start in from both ends of the notebook at once and work towards the middle.


3. Jack Kerouac - The notebook entry reads: 


“Ginsberg — intelligent enuf, interested in the outward appearance & pose of great things, intelligent enuf to know where to find them, but once there he acts like Jerry Newman, the photographer anxious to be photographed photographing —— Ginsberg wants to run his hand up the backs of people, for this he gives and seldom takes — He is also a mental screwball


*(Tape recorder anxious to be tape recorded tape recording) (like Seymour Barab anxious to have his name in larger letters than Robert Louis Stevenson, like Steinberg & Verlaine Rimbaud Baudelaire”


4. Ernest Hemingway - The notebook entry reads:


“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway


I was born on July 21, 1899


My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White.


My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily.


My favorite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing.


My favorite studies are English, zoology and chemistry.


I intend to travel and write.”


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Published on February 08, 2013 08:00