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Boop-oop-a-Doop over to J&O Fabric Store!
J&O Fabric Stores | June 2nd 2008
When we think about the sex symbols of the 1920’s, images of long legged flappers with short bobbed hair doing the charleston and foxtrot to the latest jazz bands in shapeless shift dresses and plenty of publicly applied makeup come to mind. A fash read more
Can’t repeat the past?… Why of course you can!
The Adventures of an Urban Socialite | April 20th 2008
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself read more
Up & Down New York
exquisite function | April 16th 2008 by Sarah
Tony Sarg’s Up & Down New York, a children’s book of bird’s-eye perspectives of 1920s New York City, has recently been re-published. It’s an illustrious, timeless yearbook of the city’s architecture and liveliness. read more
My First Album Cover Part II
Octavine Illustration--a little blog about Art Deco, Travel,… | April 14th 2008 by Octavine Illustration
First approached by Brian of Jive White Boy (don't let the name throw you) through my myspace page to illustrate his debut album, I held zero reservations as this has always been a dream of mine. Part Eliott Smith, part Leonard Cohen, this local Port read more
Her Voice Is Full Of Money
John Baker's Blog | March 28th 2008 by John Baker
William Kowalski at the Globe & Mail makes the case for Fitzgerald’s Gatsby: Gatsby the man is a complete fiction, as he admits to narrator Nick Carraway: Just as the United States was carved from the wilderness, he fashioned himself an ide read more
Screenings
Literary Kicks | January 14th 2008
1. From the website of fictional politician Charles H. P. Smith, apparently on last year’s Mark Foley scandal: It seems to me that, at issue here is not the morality of the Legislators, but that of the pages: can we not fill these positions w read more
Literary Holiday Shopping Guide 2008
Literary Kicks | December 6th 2007
So, apparently it is time to buy things for other people? Something like that? Here are some interesting and (mostly) literature- and writing-related gift ideas that you can keep in mind as you scour the internet for gifts. (Do people even go to th read more
Black and blues and read all over
Book Buds Kidlit Reviews | November 23rd 2007
The Crocodile Blues by Coleman Polhemus Candlewick Press I recently came across a blog post where a Mommy--a picture book author, no less--griped that she hated wordless books because she didn't know how to read them aloud. I imagined her... read more
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