Literary Titans of East 48th St
Hiding in midtown, you have to know where to look up: continued...
How Vasily Kandinsky Signed His Paintings
A sample painting: continued...
Hump Day Monet
Monet’s “Morning at Antibes, 1888″ to get you through this midweek speedbump. continued...
People Still Know How to Book Party
Yesterday, New York saw temperatures rise into the nineties, while literarians melted over to the west side for slew of literary parties related to the 2013 Book Expo of America. Team Literary Man was lucky continued...
Famous Drownings in Literary History
Greetings, literarians. Today we have a guest post from Kevin Haworth, whose work was recently included in Famous Drownings in Literary History. The content below is part of the ongoing blog tour curated by The continued...
TS Eliot as jaded steampunk teen
Seen in the Milk Studios lobby. Photograph by Monet Lucki. Not sure who the model really is but I’m sure who she looks like. The “real” Eliot for comparison: And Bela Lugosi, for a third continued...
Joseph Heller’s Handrawn Chapter Map for Catch-22
In case you missed this, or if you haven’t yet read this mind-wringing masterpiece. Also, it’s Number 1 on our list of the All Time Funniest Novels. continued...
Colum McCann versus William Faulkner
Colum McCann’s excellent novel LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN reads like a sweltering stroll through Manhattan mid-summer: the screams, sirens, shit-stained concrete, star-gazing tourists. It’s all in there, plus a fictionalized account of Phillippe Petit’s continued...
Gatsby in The Daily Princetonian, 1925
Last summer we posted an image of an original ad for The Great Gatsby discovered in an old copy of The Daily Princetonian. Now that the new Gatsby film is nearly upon us, we thought continued...