I’ve noted before how William Carlos Williams’s famous poem, “This Is Just to Say,” has become an internet meme, but I haven’t noted the ongoing and delightfully random “Just to Say” Twitter bot. And also, I haven’t before linked to Tammy Ho Lai-Ming’s riff on Williams’s rhythms.
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Janie Crawford and Tea Cake on Air
To commemorate the book's 75th anniversary, WNYC and WQXR Radio will present a live radio play of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. New Yorkers will be able to catch the broadcast on February 29th and March 1st, and then the rest of the nation can hear it in September.
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New Releases: Marias, Jansson
The new book release schedule is slow in December, but the third book in Javier Marías' acclaimed Your Face Tomorrow trilogy is now out, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell. Also, new on shelves is The True Deceiver, a 1982 novel by the Finnish writer Tove Jansson from NYRB Classics.
The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
"To talk to Le Guin is to encounter alternatives. At her house, the writer is present, but so is Le Guin the mother of three, the faculty wife: the woman writing fantasy in tandem with her daily life." The New Yorker dedicates a long profile to Ursula K. Le Guin. Pair with our interview with the prolific author.
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I like big food and I cannot lie
The appeal of larger food packaging is, apparently, linked to a hunger for socioeconomic status rather than the rumblings of the stomach.
“Better yet, Carpe Wallpaper.”
Jessica Probus’ send-up of Charlotte Perkins Gillman's The Yellow Wallpaper is brilliant. I present The YOLO Wallpaper.
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Moleskine’s Imminent IPO
A while back, I noted that Moleskine was preparing an initial public offering on the Italian stock exchange. Well, now the time has come. On April 3, you will be allowed to buy shares of the notebook company (and perhaps keep records of them within your Moleskine). If you’re interested, you might want to read up on the company’s history – and also on how to pronounce its name.
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This Is Just To Say (Office Version)
I have Ex-Lax’d
My leftovers
You’d steal
From the breakroom
Forgive me
Vengeance — delicious!
So sweet
And so cold
Moe Murph
(Can’t find shorter word than “vengeance” — needs to get back to work already)