We discovered this disarmingly simple, yet powerful quotation while reading one of Ms. Hurston’s earlier plays, “De Turkey and De Law.” As a theme, “love” is immeasurably broad, and try as they might, authors will never exhaust its depths. But this...
Happy Friday everyone. Here are few things I thought were interesting this week, and a few posts and announcements you may have missed. Yes to life, in spite of everything. This is the first book I'm reading in 2021, discovered via Brain...
The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were...
"Endless lively conversations over endless cups of coffee in literary cafés"- Lawrence Ferlinghetti When we created this illustration in collaboration with Mr. Ferlinghetti and Double Day for the release of Little Boy, we had no idea that this line would take on new (aspirational!)...
Rhapsody on a Windy Night T. S. Eliot Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations, Its divisions and precisions, Every street...
Sara Teasdales’s dreamy, amorous walk, visually reimagined. This fully illustrated book brings Teasdale's exquisite words to life, following the unbroken "line of lights" that lead the narrator through an evening where everything is made magical by her romantic mood. Although...
