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The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry One of my favorite...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:25:00 -0800

The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One of my favorite literary characters of all time.

I approve of The Awl’s 111 Male Characters of British...

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:57:31 -0700

I approve of The Awl’s 111 Male Characters of British Literature, In Order of Bangability. Number three can be ogled at in the picture above.

charlene: I wish I was sleeping here tonight. (via neatorama)

Mon, 02 May 2011 11:52:43 -0700

charlene:

I wish I was sleeping here tonight.

(via neatorama)

I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:34:00 -0700

I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever been excited for a Roland Emmerich flick (that doesn’t involve Jake Gyllenhaal).

Anonymous examines the theory that William Shakespeare’s works were actually written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. It doesn’t hurt that the film stars Derek Jacobi, Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, and David Thewlis.

"That book is so fucked up; that story’s the worst. I mean, at the end the tree is a stump and the..."

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:50:17 -0800

“That book is so fucked up; that story’s the worst. I mean, at the end the tree is a stump and the old guy just sitting on him; he’s just used him to death, and you’re supposed to want to be the tree? Fuck you. You be the tree. I don’t want to be the tree.”

- Ryan Gosling on The Giving Tree

A Literary Map of Manhattan

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:23:55 -0700

A Literary Map of Manhattan

Vulture Watches You’ve Got Mail With Mindy Kaling

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:55:20 -0700

Did you hear that the Barnes & Noble in this film, the one on 66th Street, is closing?
I did! I had this fantasy about a scene in a romantic comedy where I would go there, realize it was closed, and run into a guy who had the same idea. And then we’d walk to the next Barnes & Noble together and fall in love! It was an incredibly specific and also plagiaristic You’ve Got Mail meeting-a-guy fantasy. But that’s how I spend 90 percent of my time — having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I’m wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

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R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series is heading to the big...

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:18:00 -0700

R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series is heading to the big screen. As I’m still deathly terrified of killer dummies, I’ll be hiding in the corner and eagerly awaiting Diablo Cody’s Sweet Valley High.

thedailywhat: Role Model of the Day: Award-winning sci-fi...

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:53:59 -0700

thedailywhat:

Role Model of the Day: Award-winning sci-fi novelist Neil Gaiman will be animated for a guest stint on an upcoming episode of the long-running kid’s show Arthur, in which he inspires one of Elwood City’s budding graphic novelists to follow their dream.

This has got to be the single most fantastically surreal cameo of all time.

[geekdad.]

"When I made the decision to move overseas, I also made the decision to get rid of my entire library..."

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:09:00 -0700

“When I made the decision to move overseas, I also made the decision to get rid of my entire library — 1,500 books. Most were sold to a used bookstore, some donated to charity, others handed off to friends. Down to several hundred near the moving date, the gentleman who came over to pick up the shelves I was selling asked what I was doing with the giant stacks now lined up around my bare walls. ‘Do you want them’, I asked. He immediately picked up a stack and started loading up his car. My friend Charles and I sat gloomily as the man made trip after trip up and down my stairs. I skipped refilling my glass with vodka and just started drinking out of the bottle. ‘It’s the stories they contain, not the books themselves, right’, I asked. ‘Sure, kid. Can you top me off.’

I don’t miss the stories in Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales. I can hop over to East of Eden bookstore and probably find a copy of the same book. But it wouldn’t have the same smell, it wouldn’t be a perfect 1960s Modern Library hardback edition, and it wouldn’t have my 2007 Dublin bus schedule jammed between the pages as a bookmark. I don’t miss the book, I miss *the book*. I hope it’s being read and loved right now, and my bus schedule replaced with a subway pass or a receipt for coffee and an almond croissant.”

- Jessa Crispin in The Smart Set (via thebronzemedal) (via thoughtsdetained)

"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth..."

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:31:58 -0700

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

- Roald Dahl’s The Twits

webcat: dreameveryday: jasmine-marie:booktumbling: le petit...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:33:07 -0700

webcat:

dreameveryday:

jasmine-marie:booktumbling:

le petit prince! j’aime!

seymourglass: (via eleasha)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:42:39 -0700

seymourglass:

(via eleasha)

"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:31:14 -0700

“The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.”

- Charles Bukowski (via booksarebetterthanboys) (via emilyposts)

"A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:18:14 -0700

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”

- Henry Ward Beecher
(via emilyposts)

webcat: dreameveryday: (via papertissue)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:17:06 -0700

webcat:

dreameveryday:

(via papertissue)

dilaudid: digitalbath: satanicpanic: doom-gloom: vinnieinfurs...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:16:23 -0700

dilaudid:

digitalbath:

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katyd:

"We came to writing at an earlier age, from an urge to release a scream that had stuck in our..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:16:12 -0700

“We came to writing at an earlier age, from an urge to release a scream that had stuck in our throats. Then we worked on our screams until we thought they were something someone might want to hear.”

- stephen elliot. (via meaghano) (via tightgrip)

suicideblonde: Alice by Lewis Carroll

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:09:39 -0700

suicideblonde:

Alice by Lewis Carroll

rgeissler: sweethomestyle: (via cheapandjuicy)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:08:14 -0700

rgeissler:

sweethomestyle:

(via cheapandjuicy)