Eleanor Fuller

Ah, the romance of writing life. Another day, another PFO.

Feel better! Honestly, wish I were over there anyway-- nice to daydream about being rejected by some other funding body instead. 😆

exterior of Lala Books

Our Independent Bookshop of the Month is Lala Books in Camberwell, recently crowned one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world. We spoke to owner Danielle.

faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-lala-books/

Pretty cool! Tanti auguri!

2/2 Look closely and you can see that the king in red was looking toward Baby J. Then Filippo Lippi changed the king’s mind. Having a chat with King #3 now!.

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I'm in Toronto. It was a city arts council thingamajig. Same project received federal arts council funding, so...never give up?

By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!

Get ready, this is an absolutely brilliant novel ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Reminder: Our BIG KISS, BYE-BYE x LRB tote bag giveaway ends on Thursday! Sign up to our newsletter now to be in with a chance to win one: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

This is very, very good! New Claire-Louise Bennett novel, BIG KISS, BYE-BYE, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social later this week.
You can also find CLB in Tolka Issues Two and Seven . . .

😂 Clearly shoulda used this on my latest (failed) grant app.

Public Talk on Chinese Snuff Bottles in the Thomson Collection | Art Gallery of Ontario The Thomson Collection contains more than 200 snuff bottles made in China over the four centuries in a broad range of materials and techniques. Join experts Robert and Lindsay Hall to learn more about...

💕 Coincidentally, a talk on these coming up at the AGO. ago.ca/events/publi...

Diviners
Joe Coffey
2022

Photo of an angular shaped tea set with two cups and saucers, a teapot, a plate, a sugar bowl and a milk jug, all decorated with painted angular shapes in orange, black, blue and yellow

English ceramics designer Clarice Cliff, her Art Deco Diamonds Conical Pattern Tea set, 1930 #womensart

Remarkable. Hard to resist reaching for metaphor here....

"The eighties are over, Helen. It's not cool to be a workaholic any longer." Deirdre Madden, One by One in The Darkness.

O Vita! ❤️

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?” ~ Vita Sackville-West

"The eighties are over, Helen. It's not cool to be a workaholic any longer." Deirdre Madden, One by One in The Darkness.

"I have a theory, based entirely on unscientific and solitary rumination, that language and certainly music, or the music of language, evolved in a din of birdsong and probably pulsed with the beat of walking."

💕 Terrific! Have to admit I'm a little envious, stuck in the city.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

today, around your lunchtime or your afternoon rest time or your evening wind down, depending on your time zone:

Only Good Things
Nicki Ault
2024

Frog is sick in bed. Toad brings him hot tea and tells him a story. From "The Story" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

“Today you look very green even for a frog,” said Toad. “Get into my bed and rest.”

Toad made Frog a cup of hot tea. Frog drank the tea, and then he said, “Tell me a story while I am resting.”

Oranges. And boxes. So simple yet so perfectly balanced by Luis Egidio Meléndez of Madrid, whose day is today.

“I will go behind these rocks and put on my bathing suit.”

“I don’t wear a bathing suit,” said Frog.

“Well, I do,” said Toad.

A dude on CBC just said that "AI" "knows everything about everything"

And no

No it does not

👏 This sounds great. Congrats!

👏👏👏 Congrats Max Pasakorn!