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One of our favorite blogs, Apartment Therapy, recently posted a few ideas on how to turn an overflowing book collection into inspiring home design. Check out some of our faves: Here’s what they wrote: No crazy styling ideas, just books in their myriad of colors and sizes. Having shelves above doors and windows is one of [...] SheReads looks at the reading lists of cool chicks. If you want to be featured, send an email to uptown.literati@gmail.com.“Books featuring plucky girls making it in the Big City never appealed to me. When you’ve already snuck into NYC’s hottest clubs and pulled all nighters at Grey’s Papaya by age 17, you fantasize about the [...] Pharrell is adding actor to his diverse resume, which includes producing and performing music and modeling, according to Sister 2 Sister. He stars in a short film directed by Yi Zhou, based on a short story by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. The film was inspired by “The Nose.” In that work, a government officer finds [...] Here’s another chick to add to your Girl Power! list. Herta Müller, a German poet and essayist, was recognized by The Swedish Academy for “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed,” reports the Associated Press. The Nobel Prize Laureate frequently writes about her experiences under the oppressing [...] SheReads looks at the reading lists of cool chicks. If you want to be featured, send an email to uptown.literati@gmail.com. The latest in the death of prolific novelist E. Lynn Harris’ sudden death comes from Essence.com: Seven unpublished manuscripts written by the late groundbreaking author E. Lynn Harris have been recovered from his computer’s hard drive, according attorney Dermot Givens, who’s the lawyer for Mrs. Etta Williams Harris, the late author’s mother and sole heir. Computer [...] As part of their “American Masters” series, PBS published a letter from Zora Neale Hurston to Countee Cullen. Besides addressing the writer’s views on white liberals, segregation and Negro writers, it’s beautifully written and full of Hurston’s famous personality. March 5, 1943 Dear Countee:
SheReads looks at the reading lists of cool chicks. If you want to be featured, send an email to uptown.literati@gmail.com.Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert: “I can’t say that I’ve read many books that have moved me emotionally and inspired me. In this memoir my heart latched onto the author. I cried and laughed with [...] Classic literature plus mainstream pop music may seem like a calamity made in Hades, but, as we’ve recently discovered, nothing could be further from the truth. So, allow us to present our not-at-all definitive list of rockers who read. Enjoy, add, comment and share 1. Alice Smith, a relative newcomer with a light and [...] The Bibliophiles Guide to…Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. from Whitney Teal on Vimeo. Visit Kramberbooks & afterwords Books-a-Million Red Onion Records & Books Second Story Books – Whitney Teal |
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