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The Heart and e.e. cummings
On this Valentine’s Week, we’d like to present you with a poem: e.e. cummings’ i carry your heart with me. Reading or sending poetry to your loved one on Valentine’s Day (or even better just any old...
View ArticleRebecca Lemon Angel Food Cake
If you’re thinking of cooking something delicious for yourself, your friends, or a loved one tomorrow to celebrate the day of love, here’s a recipe of the literary sort from one of our most favorite...
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If Libraries Could Get Any Sexier…
There’s this: The shot before the kiss… Woody Allen, Romy Schneider, two ladders, and an open book. What’s New Pussycat, 1965 The post If Libraries Could Get Any Sexier… appeared first on THE LITERARY...
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On the Disappearance of Film
When I was small, my parents documented our lives with a camera called the Olympus OM-1. This camera captured images of hikes, birthdays, Christmases, and life’s minutiae, rendering our experiences...
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Art to Make a Bookworm Glow
For your Literary Hump Day, some book art from Kaspen, who created this lovely sculpture for Anagram Bookshop in Prague. Lovely. The post Art to Make a Bookworm Glow appeared first on THE LITERARY MAN.
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Chapter One: I Am Born
Things have been a little bit busy here at Team Literary Man. We are happy to report the most recent addition to The Literary Team: The Literary Baby. Our Literary Baby was born in NYC on April 13th...
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Ken Kesey Would Be Proud
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A Perfect Seat for Writing
Amtrak had always been the perfect spot for reading, writing, and editing and we’re thrilled to see it now has Wifi on the Regional trains. The best way to travel in and out of New York just got even...
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A Writer’s Paradise
A perfect spot for writing, sitting, and contemplating the next move: a bench on the bike path in Woods Hole, MA. The post A Writer’s Paradise appeared first on THE LITERARY MAN.
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Cigarettes are Perfect Literary Fodder
A delightful little quote from THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving: “My mother and I smoked a cigarette; she was trying to quit as I was trying to start. Therefore, we shared a cigarette between...
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Finally, a Clearing
One year ago, my mind in a fog, I asked if I would ever feel “normal” again. My daughter, less than two months old, cried and cried and cried. I walked for hours around Washington Heights, from our...
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What to do with your old typewriter…
Typewriters are such lovely wonderful little relics… We here at the Literary Man have bought not one but two typewriters, and sloppily typed more than a few drunken letters to old friends, cigarette in...
View ArticleIconic Literary Man: Sturgill Simpson
For a bit of distraction from the heat, a moment of music straight from Kentucky: Sturgill Simpson may be a modern day country star, but his sound brings us back to the country greats we find on the AM...
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Welcome to Detroit
Yesterday, the creative team over at Wildsam Field Guides launched their newest field guide, a collection of essays, interviews, drawings and more about Detroit. Wildsam guides take you deep inside a...
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Bastille Day in the Hamptons
George Plimpton was a lot of things: and was without a doubt, most definitely LITERARY. But today, we’ll move past the founder of the Paris Review‘s literary career, and talk about fireworks. Yes,...
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What’s the Deal With Garp?
Readers, working my way through my post baby book queue, I finally finished a book I started and stopped many times over the last year: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, by John Irving. And I hated it....
View ArticleLiterary Tourist
Today, we’re featuring the coolest most useful website ever: Literary Tourist. As you travel this summer, take a moment to research your next literary adventure by entering your travel destination and...
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I Still Love You New York
Last summer, we left the city of New York. Our Cherokee (the old boxy type, hurriedly but lovingly bought in a crowded lot in Long Island) was loaded down with precious cargo- things too special to...
View ArticleLiterary Home for Sale
Cheever once wrote, “It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, “I drank too much last night.” If you happen to share a moment with Cheever’s characters and are in a Sunday...
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A Little Summer Reading…
This summer, I’ve been on a total reading blitz. I’ve finished book after book, jumping between heavy and light, long and short, fiction and non-fiction. Even though the days here in Vermont are...
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