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6 Goodies to Bake & Give: Raspberry-Almond Kuchen

If you think the best gifts of the holiday season come right from your cozy kitchen, we've got some great recipes you'll want to check out. Muffins, pies, tarts...you just know that every sweet treat you bake for a good... Read more

Jane Austen: Emma

on TomGriffin

Emma is an 1815 novel by Jane Austen, the last published during her lifetime. Unlike Austen's earlier heroines, the title character is wealthy enough to feel no need to marry, and occupies herself with matchmaking for others. Read more

An African Christmas

on dovegreyreader

Firstly a big thank you because I know many of you have been supporting the Kayaker (aka son,Tommy Hatwell) via Instagram and Facebook with his endeavours to keep the village in Uganda and his friends in Acholi Quarter in Kampala... Read more

A Warning from the Sky April 1945

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This is one of the few remnants that I have of a larger collection of surrender and various sorts of propaganda leaflets dropped on the Wehrmacht and Germany in general in the last two... Read more

Coming Soon: AVMP Hardcover Edition

on Stephen Wendell

I am happy to announce the imminent release of A Very Muddy Place: War Stories in hardcover. It will appear soon at your favorite book retailers, including your local, independent bookstore—online—through Bookshop. All book sales made through Bookshop directly benefit... Read more

"Little Star, 2015" [by Mary Jo Salter]

on The Best American Poetry

But soon, I’m told, I’ll lose my epaulets altogether and dwindle into a little star. —Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996 Joseph, how is your sense of irony holding up in Heaven? Did you know, by chance, that the United States released in... Read more

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

on TomGriffin

Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel by Jane Austen. Like its predecessor Sense and Sensibility it focuses on love and marriage among the English gentry of the period, a subject encapsulated in one of the most famous opening lines in literature. Although the title may simply reflect the succesful formula of the earlier novel, it also alludes to the obstacles that must be overcome by the central characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Read more

Ace Boggess Interviews the Author of "Playlist"

on The Best American Poetry

Interview with David Lehman by Ace Boggess Q: You’ve been working on a new volume of daily poems like those collected in both The Daily Mirror and The Evening Sun. An interesting year to do that. Your daily poems have... Read more

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

on TomGriffin

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction is a collection of novels and short stories published in 1917 as a supplement to the original Harvard Classics. Details of the individual volumes are below, with links to the relevant pages at this... Read more

"Dependable Epigraphs" [by Tony Towle]

on The Best American Poetry

Dependable Epigraphs My epigraphs will prepare you for the excursion but not for the ruts in the road. — Virgil Stay well ahead of your turnips in the garden of life. — Michel de Montaigne Never parade your ignorance; a... Read more

Ancient Books and Manuscripts, Writing, and Writing Instruments

on John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Just a quick note about this fine and explicative image: it is a lithograph in color from Gustavus Ragn Schlyter's Monumenta Antiquitatis, printed by Junkopings Lithografica in 1876. It is rather large (19"x14") and... Read more

The Royal Mounted Rides Again 1945 Pressbook

on JM Cozzoli

Courtesy of Joe Dante and Charlie Largent (Trailers From Hell) comes this file copy for The Royal Mounted Rides Again serial. Always interesting are the costs associated with any movie (or serial) promotion. According to the onion skin typewritten page... Read more

Mr. Boyfriend [by Mary Jo Salter]

on The Best American Poetry

New lover, known and unknown, you’ve risen before dawn and, delicious in suit and tie, you lean down to the bed to kiss my rumpled head the tenderest goodbye. A military bearing adheres to what you’re wearing. Oh, how many... Read more

Henry Fielding; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

on TomGriffin

Tom Jones is a 1749 novel by Henry Fielding. It's follows the eponymous hero from his appearance as a newborn baby at the home of Squire Allworthy, through a series of picaresque advenures, which provide the occasion for satirical social commentary. Read more

“November Graveyard” [by Sylvia Plath]

on The Best American Poetry

The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Hoard last year’s leaves, won’t mourn, wear sackcloth, or turn To elegiac dryads, and dour grass Guards the hard-hearted emerald of its grassiness However the grandiloquent mind may scorn Such poverty. No dead men’s... Read more

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

on TomGriffin

Sense and Sensibility is an 1811 novel by Jane Austen. The plot follows the fortunes of the two young sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Their contrasting attitudes mirror illustrate the qualities of the novel's title, with Elinor standing for good sense, and the more impulsive, romantic Marianne standing for sensibility. Read more