Throwback Thursday: You Just Know Daisy Buchanan Would Text While Driving
If given the chance, would you text an author or a fictional character? Mallory Ortberg has you covered in Texts from Jane Eyre.
Throwback Thursday: Ryan Reynolds Hears The Voices, Anna Kendrick Is Adorable
I’ve honestly lost track of all the ways I learn about movies that I want to see so I won’t bore you with how I came to be interested in The Voices, directed by Marjane Satrapi (of Persepolis and Chicken with Plums fame) and starring Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton and Anna Kendrick. My thought process probably started and ended with: Anna Kendrick is adorable.
Throwback Thursday: Street Lit on the Tough Streets of Pittsburgh
Street lit features fast-paced stories; naturalistic depiction of poverty, drug abuse and substandard housing; interpersonal relationships that involve abuse, betrayal and other complications; and themes of surviving the streets and overcoming difficult circumstances. But the stories themselves are just like Shakespeare–only with more cussing.
Throwback Thursday: Dog Days of Summer
It goes without saying that librarians love cats. But we love our dogs, too! Here are some of Suzy’s favorite books about dogs.
Throwback Thursday: Houdini vs. The Afterlife
In the 1920s, America had a brief but intense fling with spiritualism. Eventually the phenomenon became so widespread that Scientific American decided to hold itself a little contest, with a $2,500 prize for the first medium who could convince a panel of judges that they were the real deal.