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Edward Gorey
"Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."
"Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Edward Gorey
"Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."
"Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."
customer "do you have those books a brief guide to something? or A little guide to something or other? You know the ones..."
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
customer "do you have those books a brief guide to something? or A little guide to something or other? You know the ones..."
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Writers, don’t forget about submission calls closing July 31 and August 1! Indie publishers are looking for both individual works and full-length manuscripts:
Calls for Submissions - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP. Before submitting your work, be sure to check…
www.clmp.org
July 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Writers, don’t forget about submission calls closing July 31 and August 1! Indie publishers are looking for both individual works and full-length manuscripts:
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I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't adore libraries, especially haunted libraries. In terms of desired afterlife real estate, few places compare to library or bookshop. I am going to try hard to haunt my favourite one when the time comes. – #CJosiffe #Libraries #Ghosts
July 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't adore libraries, especially haunted libraries. In terms of desired afterlife real estate, few places compare to library or bookshop. I am going to try hard to haunt my favourite one when the time comes. – #CJosiffe #Libraries #Ghosts
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Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker, creators of the Book Bracelet inspired by the work of Rembrandt and winners of a design competition for The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam #WomensArt
May 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker, creators of the Book Bracelet inspired by the work of Rembrandt and winners of a design competition for The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam #WomensArt
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Akshi Singh’s IN DEFENCE OF LEISURE uses the work of Marion Milner to answer the deceptively simple-sounding question ‘how do I want to spend my free time?’
On the blog, read an extract from the book exploring the joys of reading and the freedoms to be found in second-hand bookshops: lrb.me/y23
On the blog, read an extract from the book exploring the joys of reading and the freedoms to be found in second-hand bookshops: lrb.me/y23
April 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Akshi Singh’s IN DEFENCE OF LEISURE uses the work of Marion Milner to answer the deceptively simple-sounding question ‘how do I want to spend my free time?’
On the blog, read an extract from the book exploring the joys of reading and the freedoms to be found in second-hand bookshops: lrb.me/y23
On the blog, read an extract from the book exploring the joys of reading and the freedoms to be found in second-hand bookshops: lrb.me/y23
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☠️| Did you know that books can be dangerous?
We discovered a poisonous book today!
During the 19th century, heavy metals such as arsenic and lead were sometimes added to book bindings to create the vivid green colours like in this copy of Moore's Irish Melodies (ECC E346).
#PoisonBooks #booksky
We discovered a poisonous book today!
During the 19th century, heavy metals such as arsenic and lead were sometimes added to book bindings to create the vivid green colours like in this copy of Moore's Irish Melodies (ECC E346).
#PoisonBooks #booksky
April 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
☠️| Did you know that books can be dangerous?
We discovered a poisonous book today!
During the 19th century, heavy metals such as arsenic and lead were sometimes added to book bindings to create the vivid green colours like in this copy of Moore's Irish Melodies (ECC E346).
#PoisonBooks #booksky
We discovered a poisonous book today!
During the 19th century, heavy metals such as arsenic and lead were sometimes added to book bindings to create the vivid green colours like in this copy of Moore's Irish Melodies (ECC E346).
#PoisonBooks #booksky
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Beautiful seventeenth century book-clasps, still in good working order.
March 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Beautiful seventeenth century book-clasps, still in good working order.
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Problem: previous book owner(s) wrote their name(s) on the title page of your book
Solution: turn them into fish
Solution: turn them into fish
March 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Problem: previous book owner(s) wrote their name(s) on the title page of your book
Solution: turn them into fish
Solution: turn them into fish
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Winter is tired.
She longs to lie down
in the arms of spring
among the sweet
white blossoms
and the ripening buds
of new beginnings.
✍️March by Caroline Mellor
📷my garden daffs 🏵️
#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #BookChatWeekly #BloomScrolling
She longs to lie down
in the arms of spring
among the sweet
white blossoms
and the ripening buds
of new beginnings.
✍️March by Caroline Mellor
📷my garden daffs 🏵️
#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #BookChatWeekly #BloomScrolling
March 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Winter is tired.
She longs to lie down
in the arms of spring
among the sweet
white blossoms
and the ripening buds
of new beginnings.
✍️March by Caroline Mellor
📷my garden daffs 🏵️
#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #BookChatWeekly #BloomScrolling
She longs to lie down
in the arms of spring
among the sweet
white blossoms
and the ripening buds
of new beginnings.
✍️March by Caroline Mellor
📷my garden daffs 🏵️
#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #BookChatWeekly #BloomScrolling
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Saturday plans:
🖼️ Marianne Stokes, 1901.
🖼️ Marianne Stokes, 1901.
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Saturday plans:
🖼️ Marianne Stokes, 1901.
🖼️ Marianne Stokes, 1901.
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We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!
February 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!
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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
On Toni Morrison's birthday, the magnificent speech with which she accepted the Nobel Prize as the first black woman awarded it
On Toni Morrison's birthday, the magnificent speech with which she accepted the Nobel Prize as the first black woman awarded it
Storytelling and the Power of Language: Toni Morrison’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
On Toni Morrison's birthday, the magnificent speech with which she accepted the Nobel Prize as the first black woman awarded it
On Toni Morrison's birthday, the magnificent speech with which she accepted the Nobel Prize as the first black woman awarded it
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On this date in 2022, I posted the story of Kathleen Sully, the working-class self-taught novelist whose books are stunning in their violence, outsiderness, odd comedy, and originality. Sadly, her copyrights are now in the hands of the Church of Scientology.
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Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist
‘NOVELIST LECTURER VANISHES’ announced a headline in The Sheffield Telegraph on Wednesday, June 26, 1963. ‘What has happened to Kathleen Sully, the writer who should have arrived in Sheffield yeste…
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February 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
On this date in 2022, I posted the story of Kathleen Sully, the working-class self-taught novelist whose books are stunning in their violence, outsiderness, odd comedy, and originality. Sadly, her copyrights are now in the hands of the Church of Scientology.
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“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It’s a creator of inwardness.” —Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143
Susan Sontag lives in a sparsely furnished five-room apartment on the top floor of a building in Chelsea on the west side of Manhattan. Books—as many as fifteen thousand—and papers are everywhere. A…
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February 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It’s a creator of inwardness.” —Susan Sontag
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“If you want your children to be intelligent,” Einstein is said to have said, “read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Arthur Rackham's century-old illustrations of Irish fairy tales
Arthur Rackham's century-old illustrations of Irish fairy tales
Wonder, Hungry Wolves, and the Whimsy of Resilience: Arthur Rackham’s Haunting 1920 Illustrations for Irish Fairy Tales
A lyrical reminder that our terror and our tenderness spring from the same source.
www.themarginalian.org
February 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“If you want your children to be intelligent,” Einstein is said to have said, “read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Arthur Rackham's century-old illustrations of Irish fairy tales
Arthur Rackham's century-old illustrations of Irish fairy tales
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Anna Dostoyevskaya on the secret to a happy marriage – wisdom from one of history's truest and most beautiful loves
Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves
How to nurture a love that “would stand as a firm wall,” that “won’t let you fall, and it gives warmth.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anna Dostoyevskaya on the secret to a happy marriage – wisdom from one of history's truest and most beautiful loves
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Happy Birthday, Muriel Spark!
Born 1 February 1918!
‘The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.’
—Muriel Spark
#BlueSkyBooks #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting
Born 1 February 1918!
‘The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.’
—Muriel Spark
#BlueSkyBooks #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting
February 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Happy Birthday, Muriel Spark!
Born 1 February 1918!
‘The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.’
—Muriel Spark
#BlueSkyBooks #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting
Born 1 February 1918!
‘The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.’
—Muriel Spark
#BlueSkyBooks #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting
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“I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’ I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are” —Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203
Photo by Sophie Bassouls / Sygma via Getty Images, Courtesy The Ray Bradbury Literary Works, LLC. Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa…
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January 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I tell people, Make a list of ten things you hate and tear them down in a short story or poem. Make a list of ten things you love and celebrate them. When I wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’ I hated book burners and I loved libraries. So there you are” —Ray Bradbury