Thursday, May 9, 2013
In celebration of Mother’s Day, Open Road Media prepared a slideshow featuring wonderful images of famous authors and their mothers, taken from the authors’ personal collections. View it here!
Friday, April 26, 2013
The only thing better than pictures of Marilyn reading is reading about Marilyn.
Read Gloria Steinem’s take on the blonde bombshell in MARILYN.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” —Marilyn Monroe
Gloria Steinem on Marilyn Monroe is Marilyn like you’ve never seen her before.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Archival photograph of Luis J. Rodríguez at age thirteen in San Gabriel, 1967. Read more.
“Each of his tender poems is an unabashed machine of transcendence, a hunk of primary meat to feed the primary poetic hungers.” —Poetry Flash
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. —Edna O’Brien
Take a closer look at Edna O’Brien, a true Irish storyteller.
Monday, March 4, 2013
“I am not a myth.” —Marlene Dietrich
Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to acclaimed author William Hjortsberg! In celebration, we’re delighted to share this photo of a young Hjortsberg with his mother, in front of the family’s house in the Catskill Mountains.
“All my happiest childhood memories are involved with this place,” says Hjortsberg.
Friday, February 22, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the great Ishmael Reed!
“I try to do what has never been done before.” -Ishmael Reed
Shown above, a young Reed, who was born in 1938 and would grow up to become an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and poet. Learn more about Reed and his remarkable work, which includes Mumbo Jumbo and Flight to Canada, here: http://bit.ly/T5YivH.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Alice Walker and her partner of thirteen years, Robert L. Allen, a noted scholar of American history, pose for a portrait. The picture was taken at a celebration the couple hosted after the publication of I Love Myself When I Am Laughing, an anthology of Zora Neale Hurston’s writings that Alice edited.
Learn more, here: http://bit.ly/TzKZUt.
