Epic Tea Time with Alan Rickman … part of the Portraits in Dramatic Time by David Michalek (via Geeks are Sexy)
Books
David Foster Wallace bio (via The New York Times)
Fashion
Bathing suits and books (via Matchbook)
Tweets of the Day
In tribute, I dedicate my landing spot on Mars to you, Ray Bradbury. Greetings from Bradbury Landing! [pic]twitpic.com/amjkm6
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) August 22, 2012
Find your way into authors you’ve wanted to read but haven’t known where to start with our START HERE project: ow.ly/d7tml
— Book Riot (@BookRiot) August 21, 2012
Out of Print
Our photo contest in full swing! Deadline to enter is Monday, September 10. (via Out of Print)
Birthdays
Ray Bradbury (1920) “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Annie Proulx (1935), author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain
Dorothy Parker (1893) “I hate writing, I love having written.” (via Flavorwire)
Remembering
Nina Bawden (2012), author of Carrie’s War (via BBC News)
