📖 Biographies

• 📚Eight Things You Might Not Know about Booker T. Washington

  For starters, he chose his own last name.

• 📽️Home Movie Reconstructions 1974/2004, by Elliott Malkin

  Elliott Malkin's "Family Movie" revisits 1970s Super 8 footage, merging past and present through shot-for-shot reenactments.

• 🎙️Flannery’s voice

  Flannery O'Connor's Southern dialect contrasts with Northern literary circles, revealing insights about language and identity in American literature.

• 🎨Franklin’s Footpath, by Gene Davis, 1972

  Celebrating the vibrant artistry of Gene Davis, known for his iconic striped color paintings.

• 🖌️William Blake, life mask

  Exploring the enduring legacy and artistry of William Blake through his life mask.

• 🧟‍♂️Frankenstein’s editor

  An exploration of the collaboration between Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley in the creation of "Frankenstein," touching on the misconceptions surrounding the text.

• 🏛️Once you finally get good at it, why stop?

  An exploration of why many architects continue working well into their later years, highlighting the parallels between their professional longevity and the enduring nature of the buildings they create.

• ✍️Failed writers

  Remembering Robert Giroux and his insightful exchange with T. S. Eliot on the nature of writers and editors.

• ✉️Chesterton on mixing it up

  On the clever chaos a young journalist might create.

• 💔Fast and Right through Me

  A reflective review of Dave Eggers's memoir _A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_, exploring themes of grief, authenticity, and the struggle for connection amidst personal loss.