Laura Kolb

my brilliant cousin (this is very good)

American English speakers! I have a question for you, for some informal research I'm doing. Do you know the meaning of the verb "to tump"? If so, how would you use it, and where are you from? [Reposts appreciated]

‘The Drop Sinister’ | TLS Belle da Costa Greene was J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian. She held that position from 1905 until the financier’s death in 1913, after which she worked first as his son’s private librarian, then as ...

I reviewed the Morgan's wonderful, complicated exhibit on Belle da Costa Greene for the TLS. There's just over a week left to see it, which I urge you to do if you can. (I wrote this in December! Publication schedules are weird!)

www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-...

absolutely fascinating historical artefact - the first written source we have to mention shakespeare's butt

The Letters of Belle da Costa Greene to Bernard Berenson Traveling the long distance from New York City to Florence, the letters of Belle Greene to Bernard Berenson document one of the art world’s most extraordinary relationships.

It had to be edited out for length but the original version opened with one of her letters to Bernard Berenson: "Beloved it frightens me when I stop long enough to think of how much I have to learn–." Which she did do, about everything.

the letter: bellegreene.itatti.harvard.edu/resource/let...

‘The Drop Sinister’ | TLS Belle da Costa Greene was J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian. She held that position from 1905 until the financier’s death in 1913, after which she worked first as his son’s private librarian, then as ...

I reviewed the Morgan's wonderful, complicated exhibit on Belle da Costa Greene for the TLS. There's just over a week left to see it, which I urge you to do if you can. (I wrote this in December! Publication schedules are weird!)

www.the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-...

ELR is putting our best face forward for the big @saaupdates.bsky.social + RSA extravaganza next week. Here is a new poster with the titles of our special issues in 2024, 2025 (coming this fall), and 2026.

omg

i saw this with my grandpa one random afternoon. i am pretty sure it was just on TCM? it, uh, should be more of a planned experience

I am proud of having written this but even prouder of my big orange boy

Thank you, Karl!

Diary: Laura Kolb, From the Literary Annals of Women’s Deceit In literature and life, women lie

“Wicked” and deceitful women have recurred in literature for centuries, from Medea and Clytemnestra to Gone Girl’s Amy Dunne. In our newest post by Lara Kolb (@laurakolb.bsky.social), she asks, “Are all women’s lies actually that: wicked?”

Read here: books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...

#Literature

Diary: Laura Kolb, From the Literary Annals of Women’s Deceit In literature and life, women lie

I wrote a thing for @bookpostusa.bsky.social. It is about how Medea and Becky Sharp and Amy Dunne and a bunch of other fictional ladies-who-lie are all telling us something real:
books.substack.com/p/diary-laur...

It is not a story, though it tells one: Amy Lowell’s poem “Patterns”

Here to report that I, too, would stop burgling to read this book

I wrote a thing. It contains a misreading of The Shining wrapped in some details about my own ridiculous life. But it is really about friendship and making stuff.
electricliterature.com/the-shining-...

"The Shining” Helped Me Acknowledge the Violence in My Marriage - Electric Literature The link between creative ambition and destruction showed me that my experiences fit a pattern

Thinking with Laura Kolb on creativity and domestic violence today: electricliterature.com/the-shining-...

(@ztul.bsky.social no idea if you still have a Stephen King reading list, but this can go on the pile.)

I did not think I'd see this day (January 8th).

We sold my book!