This is going to be fun and interesting. Family secrets will be revealed!!! If you already signed up for this, there was a glitch, and you will need register again here. See you there! The Princeton native authors talk about Martha McPhee's new book, “An Elegant Woman,” which is drawn from family history. "An …
Silver Linings (63) Princeton Public Library
Growing up, Princeton Public Library is where I dreamed of living. I spent so many afternoons there after school waiting for my mother to finish work, wishing she would be late, which she always was, so I could keep wandering among the stacks surrounded by books, whom I considered to be my closest friends. At …
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Silver Linings (53) Martha McPhee at The Center for Fiction
Mark your calendars and register now. It will be so fun to see you all there to celebrate Martha and her sweeping, elegant new novel. TUESDAY 6/2 AT 7:30PM ET | FREE Martha McPhee Launches An Elegant Woman in Conversation with Julia Phillips Celebrate the June 2 release of Martha McPhee’s novel An Elegant Woman, published by Scribner. Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth (shortlisted …
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Silver Linings (51) Devenir
https://vimeo.com/236305663 This little animated video by Géraldine Charpentier-Basille is such an exquisite expression of less is more. And over in New Jersey, check out what's happening in the wilderness: Silver Linings: Coyotes, Maggots, Chrysanthemum Weeds--Day 52. And I think it's time for a puzzle update:
Silver Linings (44) Animals!
Apparently, the animals are having a ball, taking back the world. Watch here. (Thanks to Lina) And over in New Jersey, check out Martha's dazzling post about the maternal line of women in our family: "By Hook or By Crook" And yesterday she got a DAZZLING review for her forthcoming book, An Elegant Woman, in …
Silver Linings (36) An Elegant Woman
My sister Martha, the family chronicler, for whom I have the best kind of envy on a good day, who inspires me always to be the best I can be, to do more, and to do better (we try to make competition work for us whenever possible 🙂 ) has a brilliant new novel coming …
Silver Linings (6) A Letter From F. Scott Fitzgerald
A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, QUARANTINED IN 1920 IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE DURING THE SPANISH INFLUENZA OUTBREAK Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling …
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Sisters in Sicily: Mozzarella Direct from the Bufola
Martha and I, and our families, have come to the Ibla Grand Prize International Music Competitions and Festival 2012 in Sicily for ten days inspired by the magnificent Dr. Salvatore Moltisanti, President of the Ibla Foundation. On our first night in south eastern Sicily, a World Heritage Site of Eight Late Baroque Towns, Dr. Moltisanti …
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Jenny McPhee 