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ce the contest winners for our Writers Between the Covers giveaway! Sara Brockunier, Heather Gregory and Kate Mullen will all be receiving a copy of our salacious new book about the love lives of famous scribes, hot off the press this week. We hope they have as much fun reading about these writers’ exploits as we did writing about them!
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” —Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
In 1867, a young Mark Twain spied an advertisement for a cruise to Europe and the Holy Land, the first organized tourism in American history. He convinced a California newspaper to fund his passage on the five-and-a-half-month excursion in exchange for weekly columns. Twain later turned the trip reporting into his first full-length book, The Innocents Abroad, which one reviewer deemed “instructive, humorous [and] racy.” An interesting exhibit at the New York Historical Society delves into the story behind Twain’s lively travelogue, published 150 years ago and his bestselling book during his lifetime. The exhibit runs through February 2, 2020.
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Giving thanks today and every day for great storytelling and superb novels like this one.
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Rules of Civility follows Katey Kontent, a smart, witty, ambitious young woman, through the working world and into the New York social circle in the late 1930s, beginning with a chance encounter at a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year’s Eve. The story is compellingly told, with lovely writing and a vivid New York City backdrop. Not only are there echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton, tales infused with glamour and grief, literary lovers will appreciate the abundance of bookish references throughout. “I’ve come to realize,” muses Katey, “that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”
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Nighttime browsing before meeting up with my book group. Or, holiday shopping for me. 🎁 #strandbooks #bryantpark #wintervillage #nyc #booksofig #bookstagram #bookstores
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October 30, 2013 at 8:38 am
Gary
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/29/visiting-writers-homes
I thought you would find this of interest,girls! Peace out! Gary
November 1, 2013 at 11:10 am
joni
What a wonderful article Gary! Thanks for drawing our attention to it….. I think we’ll do a post about it and the Langston Hughes house being up for sale later this week. The house looks really cute!