"Hilarious and heartbreaking.... These are wonderful stories from an exciting new name in Arab American literature." -OMAR EL AKKAD Dearborn GHASSAN ZEINEDDINE
Ghassan Zeineddine has a beautiful linked story collection titled Dearborn, which might offer you a better sense of the people in that place after so much destructive discourse. Plus it is wonderful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825467...
an emphatic YES!
I am so excited to hate on that wildly horrible looking movie in February. A little Valentine’s treat!
Dare to Be Stupid was very very important to my intellectual and artistic formation. So, yes.
YES. For my family, this was when I was 8-10.
I loved both volumes, and vol. 2 goes in some (by me) unexpected directions! I am eager for vols. 3-7.
Angels with Bagpipes on High Street in Edinburgh is also good!
Climb Arthur’s Seat! It’s great. I love the National Portrait Gallery and the Dean Gallery (now National Galleries of Scotland: Modern Two, and go over to Modern One too). Take a day trip to Glasgow, and be sure to ride the subway and eat at Ubiquitous Chip. I’ve always liked Fishers in the City.
Exterior of John Sandoe Books in southwest London: brightly lit windows on a two-story building with dusk-blue sky above
Interior of John Sandoe Books: three rooms full of uncountable stacks of books, each room beyond the one closest to the camera
Imagining what would happen if we all introduced ourselves by posting a picture or two of a place we love. Here’s a pair from me: John Sandoe Books in London.
(I wonder whether they’ve confused it with Olga Ravn’s The Employees [which is also marvelous but differently so!]?)
I, a midwesterner, definitely grew up with and have continued living with this construction.
My very favorites. Their chattering!
So you might not feel or approach it as autofiction, is what I’m saying! (His prose styling is gorgeous, too, itself worth picking up his books.)
Just heard him read in Bath tonight, and he likened his life experience to found material and used the idea of flaxseed’s presence in a finished painting (by way of being pressed into oil and made into paint) to explain the way he thinks about his life as it is transmuted into his fiction.
My favorite pen is the Pentel Tradio, and I love that it doesn't bleed through!
Their paper quality is great, and I love their graph and dot grid formats!
I have had multiple students over the years express gratitude for getting to read Aurora Leigh (which I tend to teach in full). It's unlike anything else that they read.
I too am thrilled at this news! ❤️ congratulations!
KATHRYN!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, it’s fairly easy! I always book quiet car seat reservations. Leave yourself extra time, if you can; when I was using trains last month, there were a lot of delays. (Train companies compensate for delays, so that’s good, but it won’t help if you miss events!) Birmingham to London should be easy.
This looks tremendous (and attractive!).
Photo of solar corona with prominences in red.
Close-up of prominences.
A better view of the wild solar prominences during Monday's eclipse.
(Quick hand-held shot with Nikon Z9 + Nikkor 800mm f/6.3 PF)
I'm delighted to share the cover of my new book A Natural History of Empty Lots, now available for preorder—"a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society." www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...
Oh, it’s beautiful!
Oh, congratulations!!!!
The hardback of Gould’s Book of Fish (2001), printed in the different color inks! (I think it went monochrome for the paperback.)
Was trying to make this work to "Jingle Bells," and it just doesn't.
In fact I did know this. You can even cover most of the surface area of your floors!
You might check in with Mail Boxes Etc. (there's one down in Soho) to see what they advise. I've had really good luck with PakMail going from the US to the UK. You could also reach out to Pack & Send online and see what they offer. (We used a local freight company in Devon or else I'd suggest them!)
When I've moved home, I used FedEx a couple of times and a moving service that put my boxes on a pallet and sent them as air cargo a couple of times. Both options were cheaper than sending things box by box through the post! The palleted ones were pristine when they arrived—no getting thrown around.
