#St. Louis Shakespeare

[allweknewisdead]

Othello (1951) - Orson Welles

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

In City Hall in Saint Louis, Missouri there is a bronze plaque with the lyrics to J-Kwon's Tipsy.

Due to her bossy nature, author Edith Wharton's nickname was "The Warden".

Feeling drained and wanting to turn to something lighter than his Ninth Symphony (the Ode to Joy), Beethoven planned to write a Tenth Symphony called Ode an die Fläddlesuppe (Ode to Pancake Soup).

The phrase "let's circle back to that" is sourced to Shakespeare and Hamlet's response to the accusations of the ghost of Old Hamlet.

In the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame at Temple University in Philadelphia, an entire wing is devoted to Bill Clinton's phrase "it depends on what your definition of "is" is?"

[gaianaa]

Love the popular headcanon that Arthur Kirkland a.k.a England's birthday is 23rd April. He shares his birthday with William Shakespeare, St. George (the patron saint of England), and Prince Louis of Wales (full name: Louis Arthur Charles). All of them being some significant people in his life (other than his brothers)

So, happy belated birthday to my beloved Englishman.

[mariacallous]

Partial list of the books that Helene Hanff ordered from Marks & Co. and mentioned in 84, Charing Cross Road (alphabetical order):

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice, (1813)

Arkwright, Francis trans. Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon

Belloc, Hillaire. Essays.

Catullus – Loeb Classics

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales translated by Hill, published by Longmans 1934)

Delafield, E. M., Diary of a Provincial Lady

Dobson, Austen ed. The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers

Donne, John Sermons

Elizabethan Poetry

Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows

Greek New Testament

Grolier Bible

Hazlitt, William. Selected Essays Of William Hazlitt 1778 To 1830, Nonesuch Press edition.

Horace – Loeb Classics

Hunt, Leigh. Essays.

Johnson, Samuel, On Shakespeare, 1908, Intro by Walter Raleigh

Jonson, Ben. Timber

Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia, (1823).

Landor, Walter Savage. Vol II of The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor (1876) – Imaginary Conversations

Latin Anglican New Testament

Latin Vulgate Bible / Latin Vulgate New Testament

Latin Vulgate Dictionary

Leonard, R. M. ed. The Book-Lover's Anthology, (1911)

Newman, John Henry. Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin – "The Idea of a University" (1852 and 1858)

Pepys, Samuel. Pepys Diary – 4 Volume Braybrook ed. (1926, revised ed.)

Plato's Four Socratic Dialogues, 1903

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, The Oxford Book Of English Verse

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, The Pilgrim's Way

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Oxford Book of English Prose

Sappho – Loeb Classics

St. John, Christopher Ed. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : A Correspondence / The Shaw – Terry Letters : A Romantic Correspondence

Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, (1759)

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque

de Tocqueville, Alexis Journey to America (1831–1832)

Wyatt, Thomas. Poems of Thomas Wyatt

Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler. (John Major's 2nd ed., 1824)

Walton, Izaak. The Lives of – John Donne – Sir Henry Wotton – Richard Hooker – George Herbert & Robert Sanderson

Woolf, Virginia, The Common Reader, 1932.

[ronanlynchian]

break rhythm here: your kiss is my justice (aka the professorverse) masterpost

break rhythm here is my modern au enjoltaire fic where enjolras is a brit lit professor with weird roots, him and grantaire hook up, they accidentally ghost each other, and everything works out! it's complete, and you can read it here !!!

if you're here *from the fic*, welcome divas! this is a masterpost of everything that's been referenced-- including LINKS! hit the see more!!!

here is the playlist where you can listen to every song i've referenced :)

title: a poem of love in eleven lines - gerrit lansing

chapter one:

ulysses - alfred, lord tennyson (title and ref'd in-text)

chapter two:

grace - jeff buckley transatlanticism - death cab for cutie lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (title and ref'd) mojo pin - jeff buckley

chapter three:

lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (title and ref'd)

chapter four:

grace - jeff buckley (title) maurice - e.m. forster

chapter five:

you & i - jeff buckley (title) mojo pin - jeff buckley (again) farewell, my queen - chantal thomas (no link, sorry friends) everybody here wants you - jeff buckley the burning heart - louise gluck marriage morning - alfred, lord tennyson the princess bride (no link again)

chapter six:

nightmares by the sea - jeff buckley (title) letters between henry miller & anais nin THE alex turner/alexa chung love letter

chapter seven:

the ghosts of beverly drive - death cab for cutie (title) mortal kombat 9 (no link sorry) wuthering heights - emily bronte villette - charlotte bronte the tenant of wildfell hall - anne bronte jane eyre - charlotte bronte frankenstein - mary shelley an ideal husband - oscar wilde emma - jane austen playing it cool (no link sorry) so we'll go no more a roving - lord byron guiding star - benjamin gibbard (even tho i don't specify, this is the song that r plays him) panthea - oscar wilde since feeling is first - e.e. cummings to you - frank o'hara

chapter eight:

thousand fold - jeff buckley (title) the birthday of the world - marge piercy a birthday - christina rossetti salvation - bell hooks the new remorse - oscar wilde the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera greek love-talk - rainer maria rilke for hans carossa - rainer maria rilke

chapter nine:

you and me and the moon - the magnetic fields speech & debate (no link bc it's a movie; you'll notice this is a trend) nothing matters when we're dancing - the magnetic fields

chapter ten:

fake out - fall out boy (title) lincoln in the bardo - george saunders lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (when will you guys get tired of this) romeo & juliet - william shakespeare my heart is the worst kind of weapon - fall out boy (in end notes) degausser - brand new (in end notes) you're so last summer - taking back sunday (in end notes)

chapter eleven:

if you can't leave it be, you might as well make it bleed - dashboard confessional (title)

chapter twelve:

the mixed tape - jack’s mannequin [again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] - rilke jane eyre - charlotte bronte other lives and dimensions and finally a love poem - bob hicok bulletproof… i wish i was - radiohead colosseum - jericho brown jesus christ - brand new somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond - ee cummings perhaps not to be is to be without your being - pablo neruda always - panic! at the disco i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie after the last midtown show - the academy is… don’t go far off - pablo neruda king lear - shakespeare maud - alfred, lord tennyson

chapter thirteen:

the only hope for me is you - my chemical romance (title) romeo & juliet - shakespeare the secret history - donna tartt

chapter fourteen:

something - julien baker (title)

chapter fifteen:

junk bond trader - elliott smith (title) pride & prejudice (2005) wuthering heights - emily bronte

chapter sixteen:

have yourself a merry little christmas - literally any version (title) meet me in st. louis (1944) the shop around the corner (1940) marriage morning - alfred, lord tennyson

epilogue:

epilogue - keaton henson (title) ulysses - alfred, lord tennyson don't look back in anger - oasis the love song of j. alfred prufrock - t.s. eliot

[allgarbo]

hii! do you have any information about what garbo liked to read? like favorite books/poems/plays/authors?

hello! yes, i actually do have some information! garbo once told close friends that she didn’t read the books on her shelves - and yet, she was known to recite poems by walt whitman (leaves of grass), and one of her favorite poets was harriet löwenhjelm.

she had a vast and eclectic personal library. among her books were works by poets such as edna st. vincent millay, john keats, esaias tegnér, heinrich heine, omar khayyam, and the complete works of manuel and antonio machado.

as for novelists and authors, she owned books by selma lagerlöf, oscar wilde, f. scott fitzgerald, alexandre dumas, erich maria remarque, tolstoy (resurrection and anna karenina), dostoyevsky, emily brontë, hemingway, james joyce, shakespeare, thackeray, goethe (iphigenia), sylvia ashton-warner (spinster), knut hamsun (the women at the pump), arnold bennett (the pretty lady), garrett mattingly (catherine of aragon), pierre benoit (atlantida), john vandercook (empress of the dusk), vita sackville-west (saint joan of arc), louis verneuil (the fabulous life of sarah bernhardt), laurence housman (victoria regina), remy de gourmont (a night in the luxembourg), vincent sheean, john gunther (meet soviet russia: book one), ferenc molnár (the captain of st. margaret’s), ruth laughlin (the wind leaves no shadow), berthold viertel (fürchte dich nicht / don’t be afraid), nathaniel hawthorne (the scarlet letter), roman rolland (beethoven: the creator), glenn clark (i will lift up mine eyes, the man who tapped the secrets of the universe), hermann rauschning (the voice of destruction), and albert barnes & violette de mazia (the art of renoir).

she also had a deep interest in theatre and owned plays by henrik ibsen, vita sackville-west, louis verneuil, and laurence housman - in addition to her shakespeare collection.

these were some of the books, authors and poets i managed to gather - she certainly had many more. her literary taste seemed quite eclectic, moving between the spiritual and the worldly, the classical and the modern, the intimate and the historical. there was everything from lyrical poetry to treatises on art, biographies of tragic figures, dense russian novels, plays with complex female protagonists, books on gardening, spirituality, cooking, languages like english, swedish and french. many of the works had dedications from friends - carefully chosen gifts. there were also volumes on personal development, aesthetics, art history and rare editions. you can also find more information about the books garbo likely read and recited on the garboforever website.

[silvaelectoris]

Caligo's Literary Odyssey:

(the list will be updated)

Mythology and Epics 

The Ramayana i

Mahabharata 

The Iliad – Homer

The Odyssey – Homer

The Aeneid – Virgil

Beowulf 

The Poetic Edda 

The Tale of Igor's Campaign 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 

Religious and Spiritual Texts 

The Upanishads 

The Torah / Old Testament 

The Analects – Confucius

Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

The New Testament 

The Confessions – St. Augustine

The Rule of Saint Benedict – Saint Benedict

Bustan and Gulistan – Saadi Shirazi

Summa Theologica (Selections) – Thomas Aquinas

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

The Essential Rumi

Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart

Philosophy 

The Republic – Plato

Dialogues: Symposium – Plato

Dialogues: Apology – Plato

Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle

Politics – Aristotle

On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) – Lucretius

On Duties (De Officiis) – Cicero

On the Shortness of Life – Seneca

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Discourse on the Method – René Descartes

Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes

Ethics – Baruch Spinoza

Two Treatises of Government – John Locke

The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

The Spirit of the Laws – Montesquieu

The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant

Phenomenology of Spirit – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

Capital – Karl Marx

Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

The Interpretation of Dreams and more – Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung’s works

Being and Time – Martin Heidegger

The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset

Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre

The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus

The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophical Investigations – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm

A Theory of Justice – John Rawls

Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault

Classical Literature and Drama 

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles

Antigona – Sophocles

Medea – Euripides

Lysistrata – Aristophanes

The Clouds – Aristophanes

The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) – Ovid

Metamorphoses – Ovid

The Histories – Herodotus

Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais

The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio

The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer

Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

King Lear – William Shakespeare

The Tempest – William Shakespeare

Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

Sonnets – William Shakespeare

Henry V – William Shakespeare

Historical and Political Texts

The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli

Utopia – Thomas More

Essays – Michel de Montaigne

The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

Adventure and Historical Fiction 

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo

Ivanhoe – Walter Scott

Quentin Durward – Walter Scott

The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper

The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

The Headless Horseman – Thomas Mayne Reid

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island – Jules Verne

Captain Grant’s Children – Jules Verne

Fifteen-Year-Old Captain – Jules Verne

Captain Rip-Head – Louis Boussenard

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) – Jerome K. Jerome

The Phantom Ship – Frederick Marryat

Romanticism and Gothic

The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Emma – Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

The Professor – Charlotte Brontë

The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Portrait of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Realism and Social Novels 

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Les Misérables – Victor Hugo

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

Middlemarch – George Eliot

The Human Comedy: Gobseck – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Father Goriot – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Beatrice – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: The Woman of Thirty – Honoré de Balzac

The Human Comedy: Colonel Chabert – Honoré de Balzac

Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol

Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev

Eugene Onegin – Alexander Pushkin

American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser

Martin Eden – Jack London

The Sea-Wolf – Jack London

White Fang – Jack London

Hearts of Three – Jack London

The Scarlet Plague – Jack London

Boule de Suif – Guy de Maupassant

Dear Friend – Guy de Maupassant

The Burden of Human Passions – W. Somerset Maugham

Modernist and Postmodernist Literature

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe

In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust

Dubliners – James Joyce

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The Castle – Franz Kafka

Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka

Mrs Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

The Stranger – Albert Camus

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Plague – Albert Camus

The Fall – Albert Camus

The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann

Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann

Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse

The Glass Bead Game – Hermann Hesse

Demian – Hermann Hesse

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre

The Wall – Jean-Paul Sartre

Science Fiction and Fantasy 

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells

The Amphibian Man – Alexander Belyaev

Professor Dowell’s Head – Alexander Belyaev

Scarlet Sails – Alexander Grin

We – Yevgeny Zamyatin

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury

Solaris – Stanisław Lem

Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

Discworld – Terry Pratchett

Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling

Eragon – Christopher Paolini

ACOTAR ACOMAF etc. Sarah J. Maas

Twilight – Stephenie Meyer

Detective and Mystery

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (all) – Arthur Conan Doyle

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

War and Anti-War Literature 

All Quiet on the Western Front

Arc de Triomphe 

Three Comrades

The Promised Land

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

The Spark of Life 

The Night in Lisbon

The Black Obelisk 

– Erich Maria Remarque

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles

Dystopian and Political Allegory 

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

The Black Prince – Ayn Rand

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Japanese Literature 

The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu

The Pillow Book – Sei Shōnagon

Man'yōshū 

Kokin Wakashū

Shin Kokin Wakashū 

Poems of Saigyō

Matsuo Bashō 

Botchan – Natsume Sōseki

Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata

Rashōmon and more – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

All works of Osamu Dazai – Osamu Dazai (especially No Longer Human)

In Praise of Shadows - Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

Confessions of a Mask and more - Yukio Mishima

A Personal Matter – Kenzaburō Ōe

Ukrainian Literature 

Kobzar – Taras Shevchenko

The Forest Song – Lesya Ukrainka

Russian Poetry 

Poetry of Anna Akhmatova – Anna Akhmatova

Poetry of Boris Pasternak – Boris Pasternak

Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva – Marina Tsvetaeva

Poetry of Sergei Yesenin – Sergei Yesenin

Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky – Vladimir Mayakovsky

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka – Nikolai Gogol

Children’s and Young Adult Literature (just which I want to list here)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Non-Fiction and Science 

On Painting – Leon Battista Alberti

A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

and many more. I give up.

Erotic Literature 

Venus in Furs – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

New Age and Mysticism

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Works of Carlos Castaneda – Carlos Castaneda

[handeaux]

In Cincinnati, Everybody Who Was Anybody Got The Scoop At Grandpa Hawley’s

The year before he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, the actor John Wilkes Booth was in Cincinnati, performing at Wood’s Theater in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” and “The Taming of the Shrew.” Throughout the run, Booth was a frequent visitor to Grandpa Hawley’s newsstand, just two blocks south at Vine and Fourth. Years later, Hawley told the Cincinnati Post about Booth’s visits [28 April 1903]:

“He was in my store while here and I remember a conversation with him. I do not remember what we talked about in particular, but there was nothing to indicate that he had the least thought of perpetrating the dark crime with which his name is stained.”

By coincidence, James R. “Grandpa” Hawley also had a connection to Lincoln. Hawley first opened his business on Tuesday, 12 February 1861, and watched from the shop door as President-Elect Lincoln, on his way to Washington, was paraded down Vine Street to the Burnet House. Throughout the Civil War, Grandpa Hawley was the place to go for news of the conflict. Hawley told the Times-Star [10 January 1891]:

“That was in the war time, you know, and then the illustrated periodicals monopolized the sale, for in them were pictures of the generals and battles and the printed material dealt with the doings of the army.”

In fact, Hawley’s patrons often included those very generals themselves, picking up the latest weekly to read what was being said about the war. Generals Ulysses Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman famously mapped out the strategy to ensure a Confederate defeat in Parlor A of the Burnet House and gathered a lot of their information from Grandpa Hawley’s newsstand. He told the Post:

“I do not believe I ever saw them in uniform. Grant was not very talkative, but Sherman frequently started a conversation.”

Another regular military visitor to Hawley’s was Philip Henry Sheridan, whose triumph at the Battle of Cedar Creek was memorialized in Thomas Buchanan Read’s poem, “Sheridan’s Ride.” That poem was required reading for generations of American school children and the author, a Cincinnati resident, was also a frequent customer of Grandpa Hawley’s. It is not recorded whether poet and subject ever met at the Vine Street newsstand, but they might well have.

Vice President Andrew Johnson spent so much time at Hawley’s that the news vendor took to calling him “Andy.”

In addition to generals, politicians and poets, Grandpa Hawley’s shop was also a gathering place for the actors who trod the boards at Cincinnati’s theaters throughout the Nineteenth Century. Edwin Forrest was among the first Americans to gain distinction as a Shakespearian star. He frequently performed in Cincinnati and always stopped by to see Hawley, who recalled:

“In my mind I can see him now with his tragedy stride and hear his deep rumbling voice.”

In almost every interview he gave, Hawley mentioned Adelaide Neilson, whose fame as an actress almost equaled her fame as a great beauty.

“Neilson, the actress, has been here many times, and always used to pat the little newsboys on the head and give them an encouraging word.”

Hawley himself was something of a Cincinnati celebrity, mostly because of his enormous beard, which ran from his chin almost to his belt buckle. Most of the Cincinnati papers remarked about the “biblical” dimensions of his whiskers, rivaled only by those of Vine Street saloonist Andy Gilligan.

Many folks stopped by just to chat with Hawley, who was an especially entertaining raconteur, but most came for the news. In those pre-electric days, when “the media” meant print publications, Grandpa Hawley moved a lot of paper. He told the Times-Star that New York daily newspapers sold the most in his shop, followed by dailies from Chicago, St. Louis and Louisville. Among the weeklies, Harper’s and Leslie’s ran neck-and-neck, followed by the London Illustrated News. Some readers were quite dedicated to their favorite publication:

“One lady used to walk down from Walnut Hills every week to get the New York Ledger, because it would not be delivered to her until the morning following its arrival here. One day a Walnut Hills man who was a regular customer of mine asked me if I knew why he always took two copies of the New York Ledger. I told him I supposed he got one for a neighbor, but he said it was because he had two daughters and they were always squabbling about which should read it first, until, to keep peace in the family, he decided to give both a chance.”

Those were the days when multiple magazines appealed to every specialized interest. Hawley sold dozens of sports magazines, humor magazines, fashion magazines, science magazines and literary journals of contemporary thought like Atlantic Monthly and the North American Review – both of which are still published today. He carried most of the major periodicals published in German and French.

After 40 years in business, Grandpa Hawley found himself evicted from his landmark shop to make way for the construction of the Ingalls Building, the first reinforced concrete skyscraper in the world. Railroad magnate Melville E. Ingalls spent so much effort convincing city officials to allow him to build his revolutionary building that he gave little thought to the businesses he displaced.

Grandpa Hawley ended up relocating to the nearby Emery Arcade on the other side of Vine, but years of generosity caught up with him and bankruptcy was a real possibility. According to the Post:

“Everybody’s word goes with ‘Grandpa’ Hawley and were his customers so disposed they could carry away in overcoat pockets or under their arms several times as much as they paid for.”

At this dark moment, Hawley’s theatrical friends, accumulated over the decades, sprang into action and staged a benefit extravaganza for him at the Grand Opera House on 1 May 1903, raising more than $650 and saving the old man’s finances. It was a short-lived victory. Not quite a year later, Grandpa Hawley was dead. As he was laid to rest in Covington’s Linden Grove Cemetery, the Post [20 February 1904] eulogized:

“’Grandpa’ Hawley did not have an enemy in the world. For a lifetime he jogged along in an even, quiet way. He was honest and fair. He was never too busy to clasp hands warmly and talk entertainingly. He possessed a smile that was born of the natural kindness in his soul.”

[whileiamdying]

Eartha Kitt, Living Her 9 Lives to the Fullest

By Dinitia Smith March 2, 1999

She slithers across the stage at the Cafe Carlyle, catlike, 72 years old, with the muscles of an adolescent boy -- Eartha Kitt, whom Orson Welles called ''the most exciting woman in the world'' and the C.I.A. reportedly called ''a sadistic sex nymphomaniac'' after she stood up at a White House luncheon and criticized the war in Vietnam.

Her tight velvet dress is slit to the thigh, fixed with a glittering brooch, as she sings her own rendition of ''I'm Still Here'': ''I lived through Shirley Temple. Now I'm here. I remember Lyndon Johnson. Gee, that was fun. . . .'' She purrs, growls, does a belly dance to ''Uska Dara,'' pours Champagne down a waiter's throat, delivering a patter of double-entendres as she goes.

Ms. Kitt has been a fixture on the music scene since the early 1950's, known for her sultry voice, her persona as a golddigger who renders men into helpless little boys with her sexual power. The New York Times critic Stephen Holden called Ms. Kitt the original ''material girl.''

She has performed on Broadway and in Las Vegas and played Catwoman in the ''Batman'' television series. She has appeared in films ranging from ''New Faces,'' based on the Broadway revue that made her a star, and ''St. Louis Blues'' to, more recently, ''Boomerang,'' with Eddie Murphy, and ''Harriet the Spy,'' from the popular children's book.

During the late 60's and early 70's, her career went into a decline as tastes in music changed and because, she says, of her opposition to the war in Vietnam.

But now she is back in full force, appearing at the Carlyle till March 13 and as a voice in New York City taxicabs admonishing passengers to buckle their seat belts.

In the past, with the smoldering anger of her performance, her voice straining in the back of her throat, Ms. Kitt has sometimes degenerated into self-parody. '''If you look back,'' said her daughter, Kitt Shapiro, her voice ''almost sounded like a caricature. Now I think it's very real. It represents life.''

Indeed, there are many who think that Ms. Kitt has finally come into her own. The voice has mellowed, become softer around the edges, rather like vintage wine. And in an age of mass entertainment on huge screens and in giant stadiums, people are drawn to her cabaret act for her ability to create an intimacy with her audience. It is an act, Mr. Holden said, ''worthy of comparison with Marlene Dietrich in her prime.''

A few days after the Carlyle performance, you wouldn't have known it was Eartha Kitt in the hotel's restaurant, dressed in black sweatshirt and sunglasses and without makeup and wig. But even offstage, she preserves the shtick, conducting herself with hauteur, referring to herself sometimes in the third person.

''There is beluga always in the fridge, Champagne,'' Ms. Kitt said, ''even though I don't have a man.'' But she would like a man, she said, ''just as somebody who would escort me around town.''

True to her image, Ms. Kitt says she sleeps on a bed covered with lion skins. She would like to fill the room with them. ''When I get out of bed I am usually nude,'' Ms. Kitt said. ''I look at myself every morning to see if there are bulges, so you don't let it go past, say, five pounds.'' The solution is exercise. She can lift 50-pound weights, she said, and wants to make an exercise video for older women that is aimed at preventing osteoporosis and that uses the principles of Radu, her trainer.

She has also learned to preserve her voice, to ''throw'' it from the larynx, as she puts it. She is an opera lover, she said, and draws inspiration from Maria Callas. Ms. Kitt is also quite a reader, she said, having read through the Book of Knowledge and ''Goethe, Marlowe, Shakespeare.''

''Plato was a great influence on my mind because he teaches you to think,'' Ms. Kitt said, with a haughty gaze. There is an anger in her presence as well as in her performance, a calculated tension.

''Whatever man's down front is hugely intimidated,'' said Daryl Waters, her longtime accompanist and music director. ''Now and then she gets someone who decides to get up and dance with her, or catch her because they think she's going to fall. She always has a line or a look ready. Usually it's 'Where's your father?' ''

The other night at the Carlyle, Ms. Kitt said, ''I was doing my belly dance'' when suddenly a woman in the audience offered her husband for the night. ''I don't think you can afford me,'' Ms. Kitt responded coolly.

Still, despite her intimidating stage presence, Ms. Kitt says she is ''scared to death.'' ''Every time I walk out there I think I'm going to be rejected again.'' Indeed, rejection is a constant refrain in her conversation.

She has laid out the lineaments of her life in three autobiographies. The most recent, ''I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten'' in 1989, sometimes reads like Dickens: an illegitimate child, an unknown father -- a white man, she believes, who may have been the son of the owner of the South Carolina plantation where her family lived.

Ms. Kitt said she was rejected by her darker-skinned family and given the name ''yella gal.'' Her mother abandoned her because her new stepfather said her skin was too light. The family that took her in abused her, she said, and she went to work in the cotton fields. When she was about 8, an aunt sent for her to live in Harlem. The aunt told her she was her real mother but treated her unfairly too, Ms. Kitt said.

Her looks often worked against her, Ms. Kitt said. In 1958, when she starred in ''Anna Lucasta'' with Sammy Davis Jr., ''2,500 cinemas would not take this film because they thought I wasn't black enough to be making love to a black man on the screen,'' she said.

When she was a teen-ager, Ms. Kitt won a scholarship to the Katherine Dunham dance troupe, the leading black modern-dance company. On a trip to Paris, she was ''discovered'' and began singing in cabarets. In Paris, she knew James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre. ''He was very quiet,'' she said of Sartre. ''But he seemingly remembered everything and went home and wrote about it.'' She also met Orson Welles, who cast her as Helen of Troy in his theatrical production of ''Dr. Faust.''

Returning to the United States in the early 50's with a vaguely French accent, Ms. Kitt had exotic appeal, a sophistication that made her acceptable to mainstream whites. She became a ''crossover'' figure, like Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge, also light-skinned. Ms. Kitt said that she, Ms. Horne and Ms. Dandridge were the ''the three most beautiful women in town.''

Ms. Kitt appeared on Broadway in ''New Faces of 1952.'' And she went on to record ''C'est Si Bon,'' ''I Want to Be Evil,'' ''Uska Dara'' and ''Santa Baby,'' songs that were to become her signatures. She said she received a Tony nomination for a dramatic role on Broadway in ''Mrs. Patterson'' in 1954.

Ms. Kitt also had relationships with wealthy men, who sent flowers and boxes from Tiffany. One was with the playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who ''thought I was too young,'' she said. ''I never had an affair with him.'' Among her other boyfriends, she said, were Charles Revson, John Barry Ryan 3d and Arthur Loew Jr. ''I wished he was the father of my child,'' Ms. Kitt said of Mr. Loew. Often, she said, it was the men's mothers who broke up the relationships.

Ms. Kitt has been married once, to a man named Bill McDonald, and they had one child before their divorce. Ms. Kitt has two grandchildren, Jason, 8, and Rachel, 3.

In 1968, Ms. Kitt was invited to the White House by Lady Bird Johnson. ''You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed,'' she said to Mrs. Johnson. ''No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.''

The singer's outspokenness nearly ended her career in the United States, she said. Ms. Kitt said she learned from a reporter that the Central Intelligence Agency had drafted a damaging report on her. Contracts were canceled. She went abroad, working mostly in Europe.

Her reputation was revived somewhat in the mid-70's after President Jimmy Carter invited her to a White House gathering, and she appeared in a concert at Carnegie Hall. Then in 1978 she won a Tony nomination for her role in ''Timbuktu!''

More recently, in 1996, her first American recording in nearly 20 years, ''Back in the Business,'' won a Grammy nomination.

For most of her life, Ms. Kitt has not known her exact age. Last year, she challenged students at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., to find her birth certificate, and they did. She had been celebrating her birthday on a random date, Jan. 26, and assumed she was in her 60's. But the certificate said she was born on Jan. 17, 1927.

Looking to the future, Ms. Kitt said she wanted to do more concerts and legitimate theater. ''I'm tired of traveling,'' she said. Maybe she should pair up with one of the new female rappers, someone suggested, to become more of a presence for younger audiences. Ms. Kitt looked down her nose. ''I've been doing rap since the beginning of time,'' she said. And you wouldn't want to contradict her.

[theavocadosthree]

Okay so, can we all agree- Steven Grant Rogers, a man of the arts, who performed in spandex tights on stage with chorus girls, is a musical fan?? I feel like he would eat Dear Evan Hansen right tf up.

-He’d go to see plays every once in a while with Bucky before the war. Shakespeare is always a hit. So for musicals to become so popular in modern day on Broadway? I feel he would be quite interested.

-He probably knows Phantom VERY well. He doesn’t sing the songs or sing much in front of anyone at all, but he sure as hell will get Do-Re-Mi stuck in his head and hum it when he thinks nobody is listening right?

-Like this man probably hums songs from Funny Girl in the shower.

-Cabaret hits a little to close to home for him since that musical is about ignoring the fact that there’s a full on war going on outside of the club.

-His favorites are gonna be some classics like Singing in the Rain, and Meet Me in St. Louis but I feel like he would love stuff like Lion King because of how artistic and colorful that musical is, and then also Hamilton 👀. (knows every word to my shot and cried at the end of the play while no one was watching)

-OOH or Hunchback of Notre Dame

[david-watts]

wait actually yesterday. today? it gets confusing with the combination of timezones and whether it still counts as the same day if you haven't slept yet despite the date rolling over. would've been a good day to listen to st louis by the easybeats. only for the reference to shakespeare's julius caesar in the first line

[archinform]

Rosehill Mausoleum, Chicago

The mausoleum features a rotunda with relief panels of the four seasons by Leon Hermant, sculptor

Rosehill Masoleum. Source: Rosehill Cemetery, Dignity Memorial

Background:

Rosehill Cemetery, in northwest Chicago, is the city's largest and oldest cemetery, dating back to 1859, and contains at least 200,000 grave sites in a 350-acre garden setting.

Dedicated in 1914, the cemetery's Rosehill Mausoleum was designed by architect Sidney Lovell, who is interred within. The interior is almost entirely of marble, with the floors composed of Italian Carrara marble. Several later additions would be made to the building; there were six additions made after 1913, and a final one in 1975.

Leon Hermant (1866–1936) was an American sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture. Hermant was born in France, educated in Europe and came to America in 1904 to work on the French Pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.

For most of his career he was based in Chicago, working mostly in the American midwest, and frequently with a partner Carl Beil.

From 1904, when they met in St. Louis, until 1927, Hermant and Beil were partners at their Sculpture Studio at 21 East Pearson Street in Chicago.  Leon was the Artist, Carl, the "Executioner."  Hermant continued his art after Beil's death in 1927, receiving a major commission for the Indiana State Library in 1934. Hermant exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1920s, and would complete many sculptures throughout the U.S. [Chicago Sculpture in the Loop]

In 1928 Hermant was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for his Louis Pasteur Monument in Grant Park, Chicago.

Pasteur Monument, Grant Park, Chicago

In the 1929 Fourth Addition to Rosehill Mausoleum, a marble rotunda features relief panels of the four seasons executed by Hermant, placed between engaged marble columns. Each panel contains a brief quote below, appropriate to the season. Leon Hermant's signature appears on the bottom right of only one panel, Winter.

The yellowish lighting within the rotunda is so dim that photography is difficult, and one strains to appreciate the quality of the sculptures. I'd admired these panels before, but it was thanks to some thorough research by Jim Craig of Under Every Tombstone that I was alerted to their sculptor's identity.

Leon Hermant, 1866-1936 Source: Under Every Tombstone

Construction News, February 22, 1913, pp. 6-7. Click to view larger

See detail of ad below:

Photos from my recent visit to Rosehill Mausoleum, July 19, 2024:

Rosehill Mausoleum, corridor leading to the rotunda

Rotunda east side, Winter (left), Spring (right)

Rotunda west side, Summer (left), Autumn (right)

The south of the rotunda is occupied by the elegant Rawson family crypt. The north opens to a corridor leading to other areas of the mausoleum.

The Four Seasons

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Inscriptions at the base of the four panels:

SPRING

Hail bounteous May, that dost inspire

Mirth, and youth and warm desire

Hill and dale dost boast thy blessing

This we salute thee with our early song

and welcome and wishe thee long.

                                          Milton.

SUMMER

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

…So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

                                             Shakespeare

AUTUMN

There is no death! The stars go down

To rise upon some other shore.

And bright in heaven's jeweled crown

They shine for evermore.

…For all the universe is life…

There are no dead."

                                       Maeterlink

WINTER

When once our heavenly souls shall climb

Then all earthly grossness quit.

Attired with stars we shall forever sit

Triumphing over death and change and thee

O time!

                                       -Milton-

Detail of Autumn

Signature of Leon Hermant Sc. [sculptor] on the Winter panel

A sculpture inside a family crypt [not attributed to Hermant, but I liked it]

Plan of main level of Rosehill Mausoleum; yellow circle indicates location of the four seasons rotunda.

Beil and Hermant created the relief sculptures above the mausoleum's main entrance (see below).

The mansions of the silent, by Booth, A.L. Published in: Fine arts journal, 1916.

Leon Hermant's other works in Chicago include:

Former Illinois Athletic Club, now SAIC MacLean Center; 12th floor frieze (1908); Zeus presiding over athletic contests.

William Shakespeare, (1915) Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Louis Pasteur Monument, (1928) Grant Park, Chicago

City Hall and Cook County Building, (1911), Chicago

Radisson Chicago Hotel [Medinah Athletic Club] Reliefs, (1929), Chicago; According to an article in the Chicago Tribune from Sept 16, 1928 entitled “Building art inspires panels,” “The friezes were designed by George Unger, in collaboration with Walter Ahlschlager, and carved by Leon Hermant."

One North Lasalle Street (1930), Vitzthum and Burns architects, Chicago

via Prabook site

SOURCES/ LINKS:

Léon Hermant, Wikipedia

Sidney Lovell, Wikipedia

"The Mansions of the Silent," by Anne Lisle Booth, Fine Arts Journal, Vol. 34, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul., 1916), pp. 265-274

"Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum," Construction News, February 22, 1913, pp. 6-7.

[thatchronicfeeling]

It has come to my attention that it's Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023. I love period dramas and grew up watching them. They have been a formative part of my life and I'm now too disabled to watch video. Even gifs are too difficult for my brain to process. It is also Bi Visibility Week and I'm posting this on Bisexual Visibility Day. Since I can't safely post a pile of gifs, here is a list celebrating actors/characters/moments from period dramas that have been significant to my bisexuality. [Yes, this is a big list. I am missing out on watching and re-watching A Lot of awesome period dramas and I hate it. This list is helping me reclaim a bit of joy. Also I've probably forgotten some favourites and may update this.]

Lori Petty in A League of Their Own

Jodhi May in any period drama

Mary Wickes in any period drama

Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View

Anne Hathaway playing cricket in that rust-coloured dress in Becoming Jane

Esther Summerson (disabled heroine!) & Allan Woodcourt in Bleak House

the freshly-painted yellow cabin door swinging shut with the names 'Calam & Katie' painted on it in Calamity Jane

the sequence where Doris Day sings 'Secret Love' in Calamity Jane

Michelle in Derry Girls (and James too, a wee bit)

George Eliot & Lenore in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party

the moment where Emma and Mr Knightley start dancing together and it feels like you're inside the music in Emma

Polly Waker's haircut in The Enchanted April

Matthias Schoenaerts in Far From the Madding Crowd

Idgie & Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes

Suranne Jones in Gentleman Jack

recognising Marian Lister as a bisexual who hasn't realised it yet in Gentleman Jack

Mary Agnes McNue in Godless

Bel & Freddie in The Hour

June Allyson leaping over a hedge (or is it a fence?) as Jo March in Little Women

the Patricia Rozema adaptation of Mansfield Park

the whole sequence where Judy Garland strides onto the neighbours' porch to sock The Boy Next Door in the jaw in Meet Me in St Louis

Katie the cook in Meet Me in St Louis

the moment where Benedick braces his arm against a doorframe in a desperate panic to stop Beatrice from going to eat Claudio's heart in the marketplace in Much Ado About Nothing

Denzel Washington in Much Ado About Nothing

Mr Thornton's hands (ok, and also his face) in North & South

tomboy Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay

Valentine in Parade's End

all of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Papi in Pose

Lizzy Bennet declaring that she would never marry someone she did not love in Pride & Prejudice

Mr Darcy diving into a pond in Pride & Prejudice

both Angel and Joanne in Rent (the 2008 broadway version)

Martha the maid in The Secret Garden

Lelia Walker in Self-Made

swashbuckling Margaret Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility

the dance sequences in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

the whole Thomas Kent situation in Shakespeare in Love

Maria (when she is not a nun) in The Sound of Music

Kitty Butler onstage in Tipping the Velvet

Annie and Janette and Jacques and Linh in Treme

Audra McDonald and Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza in that promotional photo for Twelfth Night

Julie Andrews and her male co-star singing a version of 'Home on the Range' with the line 'and the deer and the antelope are gay' in Victor/Victoria

Justine Waddell in Wives & Daughters

[vixen-academia]

Leituras de 2023

English version

Notas vão de 1 a 5

A Fúria dos Reis, George R. R. Martin - 4,5

Viralizou, Juan Julian & Igor Verde - 2,5

Assim Na Terra Como Embaixo da Terra, Ana Paula Maia - 5 

Baleia Biblioteca, Zidrou - 5

Como Se Fôssemos Vilões - 5

Júlio César, Shakespeare - 4,5

A História Secreta, Donna Tartt - 4,5 (releitura)

Mama, Terry McMillan - 5

A Guerra da Papoula, R. F. Kuang - 5

O Ano das Bruxas, Alexis Henderson - 5

Tomie (Volume I), Junji Ito - 4,5

O Ceifador, Neal Shusterman - 5

Migrações, Charlotte McConaghy - 4

O Circo da Noite, Erin Morgenstern - 5

Nunca Houve um Castelo, Martha Batalha - 4,5

Coisas Humanas, Karine Tuil - 3

Deuses de Neon, Katee Robert - 4,5

Como Ficar Podre de Rico na Ásia Emergente, Moshin Hamid - 4

Havoc at Prescott High, C. M. Stunich - 2,5

Annie em minha mente, Nancy Garden - 4

Tryst Six Venom: Venenosas, Penelope Douglas - 4

A Vegetariana, Han Kang - 4

A Mulher do Século; Patrick Dennis - 5

Kings of Quarantine; Susanne Valenti & Caroline Peckham - 3

Secretária de Satã; Karine Ribeira - 3

A Noite das Bruxas; Agatha Christie - 3

O Médico e O Monstro; Robert Louis Stevenson  - 4,5

Skyhunter: A Arma Secreta; Marie Lu - 4

Corte de Mel e Cinzas; Shannon Mayer e Kelly St. Clare - 2,5

[livingasaghost]

okay @permanentreverie did this in honor of book lovers day (aug 9) so here i am being obnoxious and sorting my favorite books based on genres bc i'm procrastinating editing

put it under read more because i'm annoying and this is longer than i thought it'd be ahjflksd

classics:

les miserables by victor hugo

1984 by george orwell

a midsummer night's dream by william shakespeare

hamlet by william shakespeare

the crucible by arthur miller

the great gatsby by f scott fitzgerald

contemporary romances:

red white and royal blue by casey mcquiston

with you forever by chloe liese

everything for you by chloe liese

beach read by emily henry

happy place by emily henry

a very merry bromance by lyssa kay adams

crazy stupid bromance by lyssa kay adams

love, theoretically by ali hazelwood

the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood

not in love by ali hazelwood

let's talk about love by claire kann

roomies by christina lauren

the hating game by sally thorne

fantasy:

tower of dawn by sarah j maas

kingdom of ash by sarah j maas

a court of mist and fury by sarah j maas

a court of silver flames by sarah j maas

the starless sea by erin morgenstern

a storm of swords by george r.r. martin

a feast for crows by george r.r. martin

wizard's first rule by terry goodkind

temple of the winds by terry goodkind

prince's gambit by c.s. pacat

kings rising by c.s. pacat

a discovery of witches by deborah harkness

jade legacy by fonda lee

the dragon republic by r.f. kuang

babel by r.f. kuang

every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire

the magician's nephew by c.s. lewis

priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

strange the dreamer by laini taylor

sci-fi:

the host by stephenie meyer

nona the ninth by tamsyn muir

graphic novels / comics:

monstress by marjorie liu & sana takeda

check please by ngozi ukazu

the boy the mole the fox and the horse by charlie mackesy

heartstopper by alice oseman

lore olympus by rachel smythe

fence by c.s. pacat & johanna the mad

heart of gold by eliot baum & viv tanner

the prince & the dressmaker by jen wang

historical fiction:

cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr

the book thief by markus zusak

literary fiction:

evenings & weekends by oisín mckenna

henry henry by allen bratton

a little life by hanya yanagihara

piranesi by suzanna clarke

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid

if we were villains by m.l. rio

the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab

real life by brandon taylor

s by doug dorst

horror:

house of leaves by mark z danielewski

imaginary friend by stephen chbosky

night film by marisha pessl

don't let the forest in by c.g. drews

middle grade:

magyk by angie sage

a kind of spark by elle mcnicoll

sir callie and the champions of helston by esme symes-smith

holes by louis sachar

the mighty heart of sunny st james by ashley herring blake

new adult:

loveless by alice oseman

obsidian by jennifer l armentrout

masters of death by olivie blake

alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

angelfall by susan ee

the sunshine court by nora sakavic

the king's men by nora sakavic

vicious by v.e. schwab

queenie by candice carty-williams

hell bent by leigh bardugo

nonfiction:

into the wild by john krakauer

it was vulgar and it was beautiful by jack lowery

the last lecture by randy pausch

what i want to talk about by pete wharmby

furiously happy by jenny lawson

ace by angela chen

blood sweat and chrome by kyle buchanan

refusing compulsory sexuality by sherronda j brown

the great divorce by c.s. lewis

the cancer journals by audre lorde

the dark interval by rilke

inverse cowgirl by alicia roth weigel

translated works:

the memory police by yōko ogawa

vita nostra by marina dyachenko

the strange library by haruki murakami

young adult:

the mask falling by samantha shannon

check & mate by ali hazelwood

i was born for this by alice oseman

the hunger games by suzanne collins

just listen by sarah dessen

ignite me by tahereh mafi

the unexpected everything by morgan matson

save the date by morgan matson

tash hearts tolstoy by kathryn ormsbee

neverworld wake by marisha pessl

the spirit bares its teeth by andrew joseph white

compound fracture by andrew joseph white

the wicked king by holly black

short story collections:

the tangleroot palace by marjorie liu

what is not your is not yours by helen oyeyemi

the late americans by brandon taylor

filthy animals by brandon taylor

seven empty houses by samanta schweblin