Thank you Claudia McCarron and Ploughshares is on Bluesky for one of the most intimately intuitive responses to ALFA I’ve yet read, re the nature of intergenerational trauma and how it carries/diffuses. Gratifying and frankly thrilling to encounter a reading that aligns so closely with intent

— Answers magazine (1892)

Words can't express how excited I am for these.

Well, my plan to throw paper airplanes out the window until someone noticed them and rescued me has backfired spectacularly

Want to read about L.M. Montgomery and Bette Davis? Of course you do! My newest piece for Ploughshares is on Bluesky blog 👇

Back to stitching my literature embroideries and I’ve just this minute finished my latest piece that was inspired by reading Charlotte Brontë’s book Villette. Off to rest my weary hands now…😊🧵📚🌿*All completely hand stitched onto upcycled denim #embroidery #thesewingsongbird

UNTITLED, FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, Gordon Parks, 1963

“Christie’s more streamlined Art Deco style of the 1920s and ’30s yields to the expansive nonchalance of a late-career writer whose sale figures were on track to rival those of Shakespeare and God.” New at PB: Briallen Hopper on AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL (1965). buff.ly/3MRFmxy

It's a good day when I get to write about one of the Mitfords.

You're the one You're all I ever wanted I think I'll regret this

. . . And to my reading list it goes.

AITA because I wouldn't promise to stake my wife through the heart and cut her head off? (I know how this sounds, but let me explain)

and whatever walked there, walked alone.

30 years ago today, The Muppet Christmas Carol released in theaters. 🎄✨ Thank you to our fans who have made the film part of their annual holiday traditions. You're the gift that keeps on giving!

Merry Christmas

Journeys end in lovers meeting

Market by candlelight, by Dutch painter Petrus van Schendel (1865). In private collection.