The Divine Jane

Please watch this "special film commissioned for the exhibition A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy" at the Morgan Library and Museum in my beloved New York.

Lonny Magazine

Issue 3 is now online!

Bookish Inspiration

Virginia Woolf's bedroom at Monks House.
And a cover design for Howard's End by Megan Wilson.

Via The Persephone Post.

Emily Dickinson

This morning, Emily Dickinson. And the following poem:

The Bible is an antique Volume --
Written by faded men
At the suggestion of Holy Spectres --
Subjects -- Bethlehem --
Eden -- the ancient Homestead --
Satan -- the Brigadier --
Judas -- the Great Defaulter --
David -- the Troubador --
Sin -- a distinguished Precipice
Others must resist --
Boys that "believe" are very lonesome --
Other Boys are "lost" --
Had but the Tale a warbling Teller --
All the Boys would come --
Orpheus' Sermon captivated --
It did not condemn --

And I'd like to read the newly published White Heat by Brenda Wineapple.

Clock

Made out of plywood, for the kitchen.

Must read Up and Down with the Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez.

Blanca Monros Gomez

The dainty band with 14 black diamonds.