Some wonderful quotes by Virginia Woolf’s on the occasion of her birthday.
Happy Birthday, Charlie Parker!
Happy birthday anniversary, Charlie Parker! Bird lives! Quotes from the marvelous virtuoso: “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts,…
Happy Birthday, Meshell Ndegeocello!
Happy birthday, Meshell Ndegeocello, American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist! 49, today! “We’re all just bags of bones and muscle…
Happy Birthday, Michael Jackson!
Happy birthday anniversary, Michael Jackson, American singer, songwriter, and dancer! “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare…
Happy Birthday, Diamanda Galás!
Happy birthday, Diamanda Galás! American avant-garde soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist, and painter. 62, today! Quotes: “It seems stupid when…
Gabriel Blackwell’s “Literary Pillars”
I embarked on a list-led reading quest over a decade ago—not with Gass’s list, but with Borges’s (“A Personal Library”)—but…
Gary Amdahl’s “Literary Pillars”
A great many grand and beloved books are missing from this list; I thought I’d try to draw up something…
