February 2012
6 posts
Not Pretty
lareviewofbooks:
Edith Wharton was born 150 years ago. Jonathan Franzen’s piece on the occasion in the New Yorker got VICTORIA PATTERSON mad. Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com
Victoria Patterson’s work has often been compared, for good reason, to Edith Wharton’s. This Vacant Paradise, Patterson’s first novel, is a contemporary retelling, quite consciously and intelligently, of The House of...
"It's no surprise that women use Pinterest more... →
spiers:
I think if a guy had said this, there would probably be a big Internet throw-down. (If it’s true, however, I’m severely disappointed that my “Make the Observer Pink to Attract More Female Readers” hasn’t changed the ratio of male/female subscribers, which is still fairly dude-heavy.)
But I also think Pinterest’s success has more to do with early adoption by a certain cross section of...
The Chimerist: Experiments in handwriting fonts →
thechimerist:
Alison Bechdel disclosed in a little preview booklet for Are You My Mother? that she used a font based on her own handwriting for the new book, as she did in Fun Home. Computer lettering looks so good when she does it, I got curious about the logistics and downloaded iFontMaker ($6.99)…
People have always told me my handwriting looks like a font. I have increasingly taken...
