Tweet of the Day
This is total book nerd humor. So, yes, I laughed. Drunk Texts from Famous Authors bit.ly/LrPCw0
— Kathleen Schmidt (@Bookgirl96) June 18, 2012
NPR’s 2012 summer books poll is all about YA fiction. [via NPR Books]
Birthdays
June 16: Joyce Carol Oates (1938) “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
June 18: Gail Godwin (1937) “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.”
Remembering
June 18: John Cheever (1982) “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.” [1976 interview, The Paris Review]
