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P.S. Toni Morrison's Beloved Drafts

"The point is so that it doesn’t look like it’s sweating like that effort, you see? It must appear effortless!"

Dec 7

Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved

"...I’ve written on scraps of paper, in hotels on hotel stationery, in automobiles. If it arrives, you know. If you know it really has come, then you…

Dec 4 •

November 2023

P.S. In Praise of Hand-Made Notebooks

"You can’t think how exciting, soothing, ennobling and satisfying it is."

Nov 30 •

Creative People and their Notebooks

Gift ideas for Cyber Monday

Nov 27 •

P.S. Julia Child's Notes for Public Television

"I’m a teacher and I’ll stay with the educators."

Nov 16 •

Julia Child's Culinary Notes

“Rushing from stove to typewriter like a mad hen...”

Nov 13 •

P.S. Houdini’s Notes on Spiritualism

"The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN will pay $2,500 to the person who produces... an objective psychic manifestation..."

Nov 9 •

Re-Noted: Harry Houdini's Secret Notes

"Mob waited for me + took me shoulder high..."

Nov 6 •

P.S. Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Diary

"…those that love cannot separate.”

Nov 2 •

October 2023

Mary Shelley's Notes for Frankenstein

"What terrified me will terrify others."

Oct 30 •

P.S. Lewis Carroll's Alice Notes

"On which occasion I told them the fairy-tale of “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground...”

Oct 26 •

Lewis Carroll's Playful Notes

"We opened our Editor’s box this morning...and found it—our pen shudders and our ink blushes as we write—empty!"

Oct 23 •

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