#american author

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"she might have been some fabled creature whose home was in a beam of light."

~ Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country (1913)

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐧 ❀

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Franklin Booth, illustrator (American,1874-1948) • Flying Islands of the Night • James Whitcomb Riley, author • Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co. • 1892

Franklin Booth produced 16 watercolor illustrations for Flying Islands of the Night.

[ombre-originelle]

Je me pose sans cesse cette question : après ma mort, y aura-t-il sur cette Terre quelqu’un qui se souviendra de moi avec amour ? Mon âme gémissante, gémissante, brûle d’un unique désir : être aimée – oh, être aimée. Connaître – rien qu’une fois – l’expérience d’être aimée ! Qu’un seul cœur humain magnifique connaisse la douloureuse solitude du mien, qu’une seule âme humaine fusionne avec la mienne dans un long, un infini Repos.

Mary MacLane. Que le diable m'emporte.

[theaskew]

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz

[sasha4books]

[abwwia]

Lionel Shriver is an American author and journalist who lives in Portugal. Her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Wikipedia

Born: May 18, 1957 (age 67 years), Gastonia, North Carolina, United States

[strixessabre]

It's going to be a fun one lads

( Strixes' Sabre )

[xeavy]

Attallah Shabazz (Malcolm X's Daughter)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"

via southerncrossreview.org

[jamesgraybooksellerworld]

 A philosophical treatise ... writ in America1687

“–Franck’s book is now regarded as the first work of philosophy written in North America, though it is a confusing, unfocused text complicated by grossly ornamental language—” Approaching this book, like any other will certainly lead to confusion , as a Connoisseur of Chaos, I thought I would be ready a voyage into American euphuistic literature. Or at least Euphuistic literature written in…

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Maxfield Parrish, illustrator (American, 1870-1966) • Mary, Mary Quite Contrary from Mother Goose in Prose, L. Frank Baum, author(American, 1856-1919) • Way & Williams Chicago, publisher • 1895 (First printing)

[insignae]

Portrait of Grace Lee Boggs - for AAPI event @ Indeed

[theaskew]

Sanctuary, a novel by William Faulkner. (New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First edition, first printing.)

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

人們認為孤單會讓你感到孤獨，但我認為事實並非如此。 被錯誤的人圍繞著才是世上最孤獨的事。

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

— Kim Culbertson

[gbhbl]

Horror Book Review: Blood Night by Jonathan Daniel

Just in time for Halloween, American author Jonathan Daniel has released his latest novel, a gore soaked and tense slasher titled Blood Night. Jonathan Daniel is an indie horror author hailing from Birmingham, Alabama. Crediting the receipt of a copy of Stephen King‘s Pet Semetary at a young age as inspiration, he has always wanted to entertain through terrifying stories and has released dark and…