Happy birthday to Amos Oz! Celebrate the day with one of his books.
And look for BETWEEN FRIENDS, a new story collection coming in September.
Today’s Google doodle is an homage to Maria Sibylla Merian, the Swiss naturalist and illustrator, who was born on this day 366 years ago.
To learn more about this fascinating woman, who fueled new approaches to both ecology and genetics, with techniques so far ahead of their time that they’re only now coming back into favor, pick up a copy of CHRYSALIS: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd.
"People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them."
— Happy birthday to Flannery O’Connor, the inspiration for the steadfast Frances, in Carlene Bauer’s FRANCES AND BERNARD, available now. (via sharetheloveletters)
Philip Roth, master of the irreverent and provocative, was born on this day in 1933.
(via sharetheloveletters)
"Writing turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on."
— Happy 80th birthday to Philip Roth, someone who always got it right.
Happy birthday to Edward Gorey, master of the macabre, born on this day in 1925. Your celebratory reading list awaits.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
(Source: hmhbooks)
"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live."
— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
