“Surely it was time someone invented a new plot.” I wonder what Virginia Woolf was reading when she wrote this- it appears in her 1941 novel Between the Acts
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“Surely it was time someone invented a new plot.” I wonder what Virginia Woolf was reading when she wrote this- it appears in her 1941 novel Between the Acts
David Horsey, Seattle Times
Best sign on my morning walk
I loved this novel and interviewed Erika about it when it first came out - check it out here: www.seattlechannel.org/videos?video...
And I think a good place to start
A Town Like Alice is great -
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
> @covie93.bsky.social
"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
“Most times we treat Black history as separate from American history.”
In an all new @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social interview, journalist Howard Bryant challenges that separation in his book "Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America." Full show: youtu.be/hbZDaltE9BE?...
As a red diaper baby & a fan of both Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson, this was the perfect read for me, and I was thrilled to interview Howard. PS- all his books are great
Oh wow, I had no idea!
I think the Nobel Prize for Peace should go to the people of Minnesota in recognition of their struggle against fascism
Definitely agree
A Brian Bilston poem that made me smile:
The Day We Argued About Roman Numerals
Even now in my mind,
that row remains VIVID –
I tried to stay CIVIL
but you ended up LIVID.
I’ve always highly recommended all of @grantginder.bsky.social’s novels, and I think his newest, So Old, So Young, about a group of friends over 20 years, is terrific. ✔️it out today.
Another for the refrigerator door...
Oh, good! Thanks for letting me know
Aww, thank you-
I wish they’d stream it; I’d love to be there but am in the other Washington
This quote from The Iliad (Wilson, trans.) sounded familiar-"he called his horses, saying to them,/Now Swiftfoot, Blondie, Flame, and godlike Sparkle," - it reminded me of the lines in Clement Moore's Night Before Christmas & it turns out that Moore taught Greek Lit so he'd be familiar with Homer.
Three Muppets in the Fountain
Muppet without a Cause
No idea where I found out about James Wolff’s trilogy of spy novels, but here’s a big thank you to whoever told me about them, because they’re great, some of the best spy fiction I’ve read in ages. Can’t wait for his new one later this month-
One of my favorite tombstones at Washelli Cemetery here in Seattle
“Never enough courage”
What was your favorite?
“Throwing you into an omelet”
Diana Ross - Cass Tech in Detroit
