Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T.S. Eliot
(Source: feministryangosling)
Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, plagiarized his book. That college essay he borrowed from must have been damn good, though; and bragging rights definitely go to its student author. The president copied my paper…
NBA - Misleading Acronym for a Bookish Event
Tonight: crack open a brew, kick back and watch some NBA action. If your version of NBA action is John Ashbery receiving his lifetime achievement award. (!!!!) The National Book Awards will broadcast live @ 8 via http://www.nationalbook.org/
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (Imaginary) Word of the Day.
In THE CRACK UP, F. Scott Fitzgerald originates the adjective acrocryptical. This isn’t a real word. But I assume it means “extremely vague or mysterious.”
Favorite illustrations from Noma Bar, the artist whose commissioned cover graphics appeared earlier in 2011 on ten Don DeLillo novels. This month, DeLillo’s newest release, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, also features Bar’s creative stamp (pictured bottom right).
All via Dutch Uncle
Word/Topic of the Day
oneiric: (adj) of or relating to dreams
Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress.
via Brain Pickings’ Pilgrimage: Annie Leibovitz Catalogs Meta-Cultural Iconography
