Highbrow Halloween. (via Flavorwire)
A smorgasbord of wanderlust both geographical and gastronomical, auditory and ocular, literary and (perhaps) entirely frivolous.
October 18, 2012
October 11, 2012
"We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind."
— Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life (via blua)
October 8, 2012
September 28, 2012
“Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert McCloskey
September 24, 2012
September 22, 2012
September 7, 2012
August 20, 2012
He’s reading “Moby-Dick,” by Herman Melville. She’s reading “The Virgin Suicides,” by Jeffrey Eugenides.
August 14, 2012
“Jim Henson: The Guy Who Played with Puppets,” by Kathleen Krull
July 27, 2012
“Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel
July 24, 2012
The Reading Lists of Your Favorite Fictional Characters: Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
Rory reads everything, from contemporary literature to criticism to biographies to classics. She’s probably the most literate person we feel like we know. Just a sampling:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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July 23, 2012
July 11, 2012
July 10, 2012
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July 5, 2012
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