This week, we published The Way Life Should Be by Mira Ptacin, an essay about her visit to E.B. White’s house. The post was rounded up by , , , , , and others. We are so thrilled to see the reception to Ptacin’s expectional piece.
Today is Shirley Jackson’s birthday! To celebrate, we recommend Susan Scarf Merrell’s piece, Shirley Jackson Doesn’t Have a House.
Also, in WH news: Open Culture posted our site.
Elsewhere: The Boston Globe to Emily Dickinson’s house and Curbed of Judy Blume’s Florida home.
David Wood wrote about the . Among others, he cited Henry David Thoreau and Dylan Thomas.
In auctioning news: the NYTimes reports on the ‘recent trend’ of historical hair locks; rare Brontë letters turned up, were purchased in auction by the Brontë society, and will now return to the Brontë Parsonage.
The Charles Dickens Museum has reopened, after a $4.8 million renovation. The and both wrote about it.
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It’s a great day because it’s been a while since I’ve been able to post a new essay by a guest curator here. I have several in the hopper, some for an embarrassingly long time, and am grateful for the collective patience of generous contributors. Things have been a tad overwhelming, I had surgery in fall and it took a while, much longer than expected, to get better, there was a hurricane, I took on new freelance work and a bookstore job, and have not quite regained my rhythm, but it is slowly happening.
One thing that’s in the works is that this website is becoming, knock-on-wood, a non-profit. I’m in the process of incorporating now. It’s difficult, I’ve learned, to keep a website going without resources to run it. And this website is a resource for so many. So I’m hoping that making it official will help keep it functioning and useful and growing for years to come. Stay tuned.
For now, I’m thrilled to introduce readers to a wonderful journey in the form of an essay, The Way Life Should Be: The House of E. B. White, that writer Mira Ptacin has generously allowed Writers’ Houses to publish. She fled New York City for the wilds of Maine and one day, not long after, set out to find E. B. White’s farm. Who can blame her?
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After a brief recess, we are back!
The Edgar Allan Poe House, recently closed,at the end of November. Fans have been the house.
In other upsetting news: Hurricane Sandy the Pearl S. Buck House and surrounding area. George Eliot’s writing desk
Oscar Wilde’s flat is for $1.8 million. J.K. Rowling’s former house (two-story, eight bedroom town house) to a Scottish businessman.
: Bulgakov, Gorky, and Tolstoy.
At the Margaret Mitchell House, two before and after photos: ; . Also: .
Upcoming: the Emily Dickinson Museum will have an on December 12, to honor the poet’s 182nd birthday. The first 100 visitors will be given a long-stemmed rose. Also at the museum: Kay Ryan was recently awarded the “” award. For the holiday season The Mark Twain House is hosting
There’s a new artist’s house open in Maine. Welcome to
An expert at the Bronte Parsonage announces that Kate Middleton has something in common with A few images from the Parsonage are in the UK edition of
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photographer and filmmaker Simon Warner’s work, focusing on Top Withins, the farmhouse three miles from the museum that’s often assumed to be the model for Wuthering Heights.
Also at the museum: the Brontë Parsonage is via “decorative archaeology,” to make the house even closer to how it was while the sisters lived there.
Through Jan. 15, the Mark Twain House is exhibiting “,” illustrations by and about Mark Twain.
Mo Yan won the Nobel and his hometown quickly released a .
Jan Turnquist, Executive Director of the Louisa May Alcott Orchard House, .
Mysore University is that they turn Indian writer RK Narayan’s home––of much recent controversy––into a study center.
In upcoming events: Edith Wharton’s will be held at the Harvard Club of Boston, with special guest Julian Fellowes.
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A slideshow of .
Mira Ptacin, to E. B. White’s house. She gives a taste of her upcoming essay, to be published here on Oct. 29: “With each step away from the old brown barn and closer to the shed, we see living relics from White’s world: a lush emerald garden. An old chicken chopping block. A tall apple tree doubling as a raccoon lookout tower.”
William Cullen Bryant’s Cedarmere Estate to help plant trees and tend the gardens.
Charles Dickens’ great-great-grandson his great-great-grandfather gave a “zero star” review to, 153 years ago.
Consider us gobsmacked by about his triangular house in Warsaw.
War poet Wilfred Owen’s gets protected status in Shropshire.
Richmond’s Poe Museum is hosting a “Masque of the Red Death” and a.
From the Emily Dickinson Museum, ever-developing And they are searching for . Can you help them?
Tonight, in London, it’s a .
The Anne Frank House has a called ‘So I’m now fifteen’ – Photos, letters and books of Anne Frank.
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