Claire McCardell was born into a world of corsets and bustles and eschewed them to become the single most important designer for American women whose name you never heard of before you read this book. Talk about the erasure of the genius who gave us pockets, separates, jeans, ballet flats, and the ability to carry…
Read more Over the years, women rarely mothballed her clothes; they wore them to threads.
Quote: “I watch people attempt sleep in ways that would concern a physician. One man is folded over his tray table like a student who has given up during an exam. A child three rows back is fully unconscious, limbs splayed, sleeping better than any of us have slept in years. This is the last…
Storyknife Writers Retreat is honored and elated to be featured in The Giving List’s annual book! Dedicated to profiling organizations that benefit women, The Giving List organization curates a list and publishes it annually as a reference for people looking for good causes to support. (N.B.: If you’d like to know more about The Giving…
Dana sez, A useful post for writers of any age or experience, but I confess I’m sharing it mostly because of Scalzi’s use of “atemporally appealing.” Which Heinlein certainly is. If I could boil down what I see as Heinlein’s Theory of Characters. It would come to these four lessons: 1. Your Characters Doesn’t Exist in…
“In 1917,” Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams begins, Robert Grainier took part in an attempt on the life of a Chinese laborer caught, or anyway accused of, stealing from the company stores of the Spokane International Railway in the Idaho Panhandle. A man orphaned early and raised by relatives he leaves at the first opportunity to…
Quote: “There are new shadows over the pens created by the solar arrays. It’s a large canopy that offers a form of protection. Now, with the absence of the noise of the turbines and disturbance of the fuel delivery vessels, the farm is an ocean oasis. The fish farmers are thrilled, but who’s moved into the basement?”…
From Liz Ruskin in the Alaska At-Large newsletter. (Subscribe here) As part of our election coverage, we send questions to candidates and compile the answers in a handy candidate comparison tool. This year, the voter guide is a collaboration of four media organizations: Alaska Public Media, the Anchorage Daily News, the Alaska Beacon and Juneau public radio…
Read more Which is why we only hear from Dan once every six years.
