#francineprose

[thebeautyinthestruggle]

Fun read if you are into the salacious drama of the Cold War. RIP to Julius and Ethel. #thevixen #francineprose #instabooks #igreads #bookreview @bklynlibrary https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7HuonOf13zOhqS95o_AegT4mGr0w83bQim6c0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ramirogodoy]

"...when one writes accurately and comprehensively about human beings, politics inevitably comes into the story." #francineprose #thespidershouse #paulbowles #morocco #fez #1954 #sigloXX #goodreads https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpo6CgWl2KE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15rx0jlrxpg66

[coquette0106-blog]

[drewsof]

Book No. 27 "Hangsaman" by Shirley Jackson #2017inreading . . . . #bookish #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #booknerd #bookworm #shirleyjackson #hangsaman #penguinclassics #francineprose #college #letters #bibliophile #booklover #books #amreading #reading

[drnels]

For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what’s superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, or especially cut is essential. It’s satisfying to see that sentence shrink, snap into place, and ultimately emerge in a more polished form: clear, economical, sharp.

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

[ashleighxo]

Paris is an insomniac's heaven

Lovers at the Chameleon Club Paris 1932

[ashleighxo]

Sell everything, cut every tie, move to Paris with nothing but a good pair of walking shoes and the will to survive on cigarette smoke, wine, sex, music, poetry, and moonlight on the Seine.

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

[brooklynbookfestival]

Encrypt the crap out of your life. Why make it easy for the government? Make it as hard as possible.

NSA whistleblower Tom Drake, as quoted in this July New Yorker post.

Drake will be joined by Edwidge Danticat, Francine Prose, Andre Aciman and Leonard Lopate for the festival-day panel "Something to Hide: Writers Against the Surveillance State," a reflection on the dangers surveillance poses to the freedom to think and create. 5 pm at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church.