[universitybookstore]

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?”

- Anthony Trollope, English novelist, who died 132 years ago today. (via universitybookstore)

[nicksucio]

How you frame the story will change the story.

[literaryfiasco]

YUP. 

[theparisreview]

“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.”

Paul Auster (via theparisreview)

Reading Brooklyn Follies now

[fer1972]

Book Sculptures by Long-Bin Chen

[emilywalks]

We are not as cynical as we pretend to be. We continue to date and fall disastrously in love and marry and divorce and try again despite overwhelming evidence that it is a hell of a thing to stay with one person for the rest of your life.

Roxane Gay, “The Marriage Plot” (via emilywalks)

Roxane on The Bachelor/ette? Yes please.

(via therumpus)

Preach!

[theparisreview]

The British Library puts online 1,200 works from great Romantic and Victorian writers in its Discovering Literature project. (via)

[fuckyeahbookarts]

The Mini Book of Major Events by Evan Lorenzen

[literaryfiasco]

Constancy by Micahel Field

  I love her with the seasons, with the winds, As the stars worship, as anemones Shudder in secret for the sun, as bees Buzz round an open flower: in all kinds My love is perfect, and in each she finds Herself the goal: then why, intent to teaze And rob her delicate spirit of its ease, Hastes she to range me with inconstant minds? If she should die, if I were left at large On earth without her-I, on earth, the same Quick mortal with a thousand cries, her spell She fears would break. And I confront the charge As sorrowing, and as careless of my fame As Christ intact before the infidel.

[selfiecanvases]

Requisite art library selfie.

[uispeccoll]

Special Collections featured rare editions of Shakespeare’s works at the unveiling of the “William Sherkspeare” statue, May 5, 2014, in the University of Iowa Libraries’ Learning Commons. The artist Alan Thompson Wallace is on the left in the unveiling and Ron Clark from the Riverside Theater gave a sonnet recitation. The 83 statues around Iowa City will be on display through the summer and then will be auctioned off to support the United Way.

[poeticsheretic]

I love that Ron Clark appears to be delivering the sonnet TO ShakesHerky

[literaryfiasco]

Oh Ron. Looking so regal.

[explore-blog]

How to pack to travel around the world like Nellie Bly, badass Victorian female journalist, born 150 years ago today.

[literaryfiasco]

The Globe's Titus Andronicus. Ugh, I would be one of those audience members that faints!

via http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/got-the-stomach-for-titus-andronicus-9318962.html

[cavetocanvas]

[cavetocanvas]

Katsushika Hokusai, South Wind, Clear Sky from Thirty Six Views of Mount Fugi, c. 1830

[literaryfiasco]

This was the image on my Japanese train pass. Miss it :(

[uispeccoll]

Bertha Maude Horack Shambaugh (1871-1953) was born in Cedar Rapids, IA and attended the University of Iowa from 1889 to 1896.  She taught natural science at Iowa City High School from 1892 until 1897—the year she married her husband Benjamin Shambaugh (1871-1940).  Benjamin Shambaugh was a professor at the University of Iowa from 1896 to 1940 and superintendent at the State Historical Society of Iowa for almost as long.  Bertha Shambaugh was a historian in her own right; she gave several speeches throughout her lifetime and wrote extensive histories of the Amana colonies titled: Amana: The Colony of True Inspiration (1908) and Amana That Was and Amana That Is (1933).  The Shambaughs often acted as hosts for visiting scholars and were very involved in the university community.  Bertha maintained a record of their daily meals and parties in her House Books which contain letters, notes, telegrams, and photographs.

I found the scrapbooks from Bertha Shambaugh’s teens incredibly charming.  Created sometime in the 1880s, the scrapbooks are a collection of valentines, cards, and dried flowers.  To me, the scrapbooks indicate a predisposition to keeping records anticipating her House Books. I love how vivid all of the colors are and that cards with parrots were apparently a fad!  And that someone 135 years earlier also collected images of gnomes and silly mustaches!

-Jillian P.

Shambaugh Family Papers RG 99.0152

Scrapbooks Box 40, House Books Boxes 19-31

[literaryfiasco]

The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back

Can a budding labor movement improve the lives of non-tenured faculty—and, in the process, fix higher education?

Thank god. Let's all support fair working conditions for those of us in higher ed. Loving what you do does not mean you should settle for doing it at an absurdly low wage. 

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

[blua]

Candida Hofer - Libraries (published 2005)

[swoonreads]

Libraries are some of the most beautiful places.

[sgrplum-deactivated20240301]

It took FOREVER for me to get a copy of Hofer’s book. I had to use the WorldCat library loan program and it came from several states away. What an absolute joy it was! The book was very expensive to buy so it’s only appropriate that I had to use a library to get such a beautiful book on libraries! The pictures were gorgeous!!!

[literaryfiasco]

YES. ALL THE YES!

[literaryfiasco]

The perfect accompaniment as I grade papers