My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Elizabeth Bennet natural fragrance and aromatherapy oil (inspired by Jane Austen!) from Scentings. You can read it here.
Category: Books and Other Reading
Covet: Book Cover Tote Bags
I really don’t need any more tote bags, but if I did, I’d scoop up one of these totes featuring vintage book covers.
Here’s one of my favorite books, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), represented by its original Francis Cugat cover, a hallucinatory image of an illuminated fairground or city skyline and a woman’s face materializing against a dream-blue sky.
My Back Pages: Edith Wharton’s “Summer”
I’ve been re-reading Edith Wharton’s Summer over the past few days, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Wharton’s writing in Summer is clear and elegant, as always, but the subject matter is surprisingly frank and dark for 1917. The story takes place in a desolate small town in rural Massachusetts, where a young woman’s romance with a more worldly man plays out (to a heart-rending conclusion) against the background of a summertime Berkshires landscape.
My Back Pages: Dorothy Parker and “The Lovely Leave”
Dorothy Parker is known as a humorist, and a black-humorist at that; but a few of her short stories are surprisingly touching. I’ve read “The Lovely Leave” (1943) many, many times, and I still enjoy its vignette of a soldier’s wife preparing for her husband’s all-too-brief leave in wartime New York.
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Photo Album: “Coming to My Senses” with Alyssa Harad at BookCourt, July 19th
Last Thursday night, Alyssa Harad visited BookCourt in Brooklyn to read from her new book Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure and an Unlikely Bride. Her reading was followed by discussion and drinks in a happy gathering of friends, readers, and perfume-lovers. Here are a few photos from the event.
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