The Cartoons of Flannery O’Connor
Who knew one of my favorite southern novelists was also a cartoonist?! I guess I would have had I bothered to read The Guardian this past July…
Flavorwire also posted a large selection of them.
Did you know G.W.F. Hegel’s great-great-great-grandson is a pioneer of the cyberpunk literary movement? If you’d like to read Rudy Rucker’s entire Ware Tetralogy, he’s got a full downloadable version here:
http://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/rucker_ware_tetralogy_cc2010.pdf
Philip K. Dick’s Natal Chart.
Happy B day PKD! Long may your words live.
“Therefore, you are certainly a passionate man who is on the lookout for any kind of action or revolutionary idea, and you are keen on new things. Uranians are never predictable, and it is especially when they are believed to be stable and well settled that… they change everything - their life, partner, and job! In fact, you are allergic to any kind of routine, although avoiding it must give way to many risks.”
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Huckleberry Finn Robot Edition Trailer
[via Buzzfeed]
nypl:
We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you the latest news about Karen Russell, 2009 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Fellow…
Karen’s critically acclaimed novel Swamplandia (which can be found at the Library) was just selected as a best book of 2011 by the New York Times! Swamplandia has been making the rounds of late and is in development to become an HBO Comedy project.
You can hear Karen discuss the creation of her novel with another immensely talented author, Wells Tower, during her visit to the Library last March at an event hosted by the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. (Wells Tower will be appearing at the Library with John Jeremiah Sullivan on December 15 - check that out too!)
W.B. Yeats (by National Library of Ireland on The Commons)
This photo was taken when poet William Butler Yeats was 58.
We have an ongoing exhibition celebrating the Life and Works of William Butler Yeats here in Dublin, but for those of you who are far, far away, it’s also online…
Date: 1923
Wow(!), the online exhibition is really impressive.
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The Year in Books: Literati recommend their favorite books of 2011
Favorites recommend their favorites.
