Posts Tagged ‘Emily Dickinson’
January 1, 2013 | by Jessie Gaynor
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year!
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TAGS booty call, Dan Brown, drunk texts, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, John Cheever, Paul Celan, Philip Roth, Sappho, William Wordsworth
December 18, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
British children’s magazine Puffin Post is folding after forty years.
“#bromance goes sour when 2 friends, Prince Harry and Falstaff, are all #yolo #rkoi #dom until Harry inherits the crown and a conscience.” Yup, Twitter Shakespeare.
The (inevitable?) Game of Thrones beer.
An inventory of Emily Dickinson’s family artifacts.
Indiana Jones journal mystery solved!
TAGS beer, Emily Dickinson, Game of Thrones, Indiana Jones, Penguin, Puffin Post, roundup, Shakespeare, Twitter, University of Chicago
November 1, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” —Emily Dickinson
TAGS Emily Dickinson, November, poetry, quotes
June 14, 2012 | by The Paris Review
The long, strange history of Dorothy Parker’s ashes.
Translating Emily Dickinson (into modern English).
Thomas Pynchon (finally) allows his books to be sold digitally.
At the newly launched the Slant, Erica Jong talks … well, everything.
The Arizona Department of Transportation turns to haiku for their latest dust-storm PSAs.
Hemingway’s Oak Park childhood home has been purchased. The new owners say they plan a Hemingway-esque restoration.
TAGS Arizona, Dorothy Parker, Emily Dickinson, Erica Jong, Ernest Hemingway, Haiku, news, roundup, The Slant, Thomas Pynchon
June 7, 2012 | by The Paris Review
“I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people.” Ray Bradbury answers a fan letter, 1974.
Natasha Trethewey is named Poet Laureate.
Telling tales on the mid-century New Yorker. Just who was Janet Groth’s thinly disguised cad, the Great Deceiver?
Protesting New York City library cuts.
An Emily Dickinson garden party in Amherst.
Controversial words in China and the USA.
The android head of Philip K. Dick is terrifying.
TAGS Emily Dickinson, Natasha Trethewey, news, NYPL, On the Shelf, Philip K. Dick, Poet Laureate, Ray Bradbury, roundup
