WHEN A PIECE COMES IN SUPER LATE BUT SUPER CLEAN

I love this Tumblr. And Streep GIFS. Win win.

editorrealtalk:

CaricatureWIN.
labohrertorium:


Asked to define “political power”—the motif of his multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—historian Robert Caro falls silent. “I don’t think anyone ever has asked me that,” he says.

Flattering interviewers. Call it, “The [Caro] Treatment.”

CaricatureWIN.

labohrertorium:

Asked to define “political power”—the motif of his multivolume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson—historian Robert Caro falls silent. “I don’t think anyone ever has asked me that,” he says.

Flattering interviewers. Call it, “The [Caro] Treatment.”

Off On a Tangent: Serious Nonfiction in the Digital Age

A worthwhile, if somewhat sobering look, at where biography may be in the years after everyone gets a Kindle and burns their paper books in a giant, “See You, PAST!” bonfire.

offonatangent:

This is a subject that’s been on my mind a lot these past few weeks, driven largely by the absolutely deserved attention cycle given to Robert Caro’s LBJ biography and volume 4, THE PASSAGE OF POWER. It’s not just that Caro is a throwback, someone whose career was the product of a time when…

I reviewed the new Hilary Mantel for TIME. There is a lot of beheading in it, if that’s your thing. 

I reviewed the new Hilary Mantel for TIME. There is a lot of beheading in it, if that’s your thing. 

Big day. Happy day. Via thewordunheard

Big day. Happy day. Via thewordunheard

labohrertorium:

Highbrow/Brilliant.

It looks deceptively simple. Trust.

wordbrooklyn:

Robert Caro signs in blue! We’ve got a stack of signed copies The Passage Of Power, and are taking bets on how quickly they’ll sell out.

My over/under is 24 hours.

wordbrooklyn:

Robert Caro signs in blue! We’ve got a stack of signed copies The Passage Of Power, and are taking bets on how quickly they’ll sell out.

My over/under is 24 hours.

Kate Beaton, The Fitzgeralds

factoseintolerant:

The Fitzgeralds’ passports

Latent Light, Amy Friend.