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— beep-beep, spel! #BlackLivesMatter✊🏿 (@cawcawcawmfs) October 1, 2018 — caththehuman ✿ (@caththehuman) October 2, 2018 — Laura Terry (@LauraTerryDraws) October 3, 2018 A post shared by 🎨📱✍🏼 Mette (@maas_artandstuff) on Oct 3, 2018 at 10:15pm PDT — Hayden Sherman (@Cleanlined) October 5, 2018 ↳ the first black female author to have her play performed on broadway, with her 1957 show “a raisin in the sun”. also a lesbian, and a huge activist for gay rights, black rights, and feminism!...

Strawberries are delicious, fun, and make for fabulous design options. Paired with toadstools, strawberries give such a whimsical feel to things, and alone, strawberries evoke not only sweetness, but also all things long days, warm weather, picnics, and summer lounging. I am constantly envious of how strawberries have become a staple of my kid’s wardrobe, as I, too, would love to be able to find adult-size strawberry rompers, headbands, shoes, and PJs....

The For Dummies books really found popularity during the height of the dot-com bubble halfway through the decade. Laypeople with no knowledge of computer technology were seeking out easily-digestible information about software, coding, and operating systems. While working for Bantam Doubleday Dell publishers in New York, IDG Books co-founder and CEO John Kilcullen overheard a computer software store customer lamenting his need for an easy-to-follow book about computers. Unknowingly titling their very first book, this customer said he was looking for “Something like DOS for Dummies”, and hence an entire series was born....

I’m a narcissist like that. I’m always interested in novels that skewer online media culture. At this point in my career, I am both cynical as hell about the field in which I work, and also ruined for anything else. What am I gonna do? Put on hard pants and take a bus into the city again? We both spend a lot of time on social media. Done with these books and want a nonfiction take on it all?...

In making a list of books a reader would enjoy if they liked Yellowjackets, I delved into both fiction and nonfiction. It’s not all plane crashes and cannibalism, but some of these books just scream with the same tone and vibe and I couldn’t set them aside once they popped to mind. Here we’ve got dark and twisty cults, strangers in the woods, magical realism, a subway disaster, and five sisters on the edge — and of course, there are some plane crashes with all the LOST vibes those bring....

I’ve been lucky enough to tag along to some of the top restaurants in the world. These joints have tasting menus that sometimes include dozens of courses. While I have found some of them delicious, I’ve always wondered: why doesn’t anyone do a 15-course breakfast tasting? Give me toast 20 ways! Give me scrambled eggs that are manipulated to look like the seaside! Bring me what I think is a sculpture of a naked woman, only to break open her back and have chilaquiles steaming for me!...

Ask yourself why the Scooby-Doo cartoon gets a revival every couple of years or so. There is a different version of the beloved cartoon series for almost every generation. Some even have multiples in the same decade. And, regardless of personal feelings on them, it goes without saying that there is a reason that has sustained. Other cartoons of that era have been largely forgotten and haven’t received a similar revival....

‘Djinns aren’t real, but if they were, they would only steal children because we have the most delicious souls’. Based on a true story, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, is the story of three children in the slums of a sprawling Indian city set out to solve the case of a missing classmate in this harrowing debut about comradery, adventure, and the slow unravelling of a communal tragedy. Enter to win Deepa Anappara’s astounding debut novel today!...

“When I first moved to New York, I worked as a nanny for a couple who owned a bookstore, and one day the mother insisted I take home Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star (full disclosure: I never brought it back), which is about a young Brazilian woman overlooked by the world for her dim wits and unremarkable looks. Since then, this idea of books driven by characters you might think have nothing to offer the world or the reader has obsessed me....

An impressive 12,000 volume library stands as an extension to an 1865 house. The house and library serve as literary central: readings, workshops, the Word & Image Gallery for visual exhibits. Because it’s a house, it has a kitchen (wine and cheese, y’all!, plus fresh local produce!) and a bedroom for visiting writers and artists (I stayed overnight and it was lovely, and they gave me breakfast!). There’s also a garden outside, which is fantastic for inspiration....

Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy was one of the highlights of my summer. I know that technically we’re not through the season yet, but I’m confident enough to call this. When loaded up Netflix on July 2 and saw Fear Street Part One: 1994 was streaming, I may or may not have squealed out loud. Like a lot of book dragons of a certain age, R.L. Stine had an impact on my early reading life....

An adorable miniature book-shaped business card, for a representative of Bangon Books, the publisher of The Golden Key A sloth-centric “Hang out with me!” business card, showcasing the work of British illustrator Izzi Fitch A simulated passport, containing the border-challenging poem “Passport” by Maltese writer Antoine Cassar A mini sample from Sophia K. Bennett and Christopher Bennett’s children’s book I Can’t Sleep on That!, with a QR code on the opposite side for illustrator Stag Prints...

A: The Aztec Empire B: (Non) Binary C: Chinese History (The Boxer Rebellion) D: Detention E: Edo Era Japan Stay tuned for the next installment in this history series! In the meantime, catch up on previous rounds of Comics A-Z. Viviana was taken in by those same missionaries, however, when the people who lived in her village would have left her to die. They gave her a home and a family....

K: Kusama L: Louis XVI M: Mafia N: Normans O: Oeuvre Stay tuned for the next installment in this history series! In the meantime, catch up on previous rounds of Comics A–Z. One of the most amazing things about Kusama-sensei, though, is her willingness to speak publicly about her experiences with mental illness and to be open about her decision in 1973 to take up permanent residence in a psychiatric facility, where she still resides today....

Okay, you last person sitting there with your hand still firmly at your side—raise it if you were tempted just a tiny bit to go searching for a diary, or got some small thrill from the prospect of finding one. That’s what I thought. Welcome to the group. Diaries are irresistible, whether the lives they capture are real or imagined. Maybe it’s voyeurism; maybe it’s something better. In theory, a diary is an author’s most captive audience and peerless confidante, stripping from their voice the armor of pretense or posturing or performing....

Aries (March 21–April 19) While others are focused on family around the holidays, you’re going full steam ahead toward your career goals this month. Aries are competitive and determined; you won’t let anything get in your way. You can make great strides while others are distracted by celebrations. But time spent at work may cause your loved ones some frustration. Be sure to take a little time off in December to keep things peaceful at home....