Cool-looking authors No. 52

 Sherman Alexie, short story writer, poet, filmmaker and more.
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" and "Blasphemy"




Photographer unknown

Cool-looking authors No. 51

James Baldwin, novelist, poet, essayist and social critic

Stamp artist Thomas Blackshear II

Cool-looking authors No. 50

Collin Kelley, author of "The Venus Trilogy" novels, poet and Atlanta literary figure


Profile in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution (click here for link).

Cool-looking authors No. 49

Rosecrans Baldwin, author of memoir "Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" and novel "You Lost Me There"

Photo by Susie Post-Rust

Cool-looking authors No. 48

Gillian Flynn, author of the best-selling novel "Gone Girl"

Photo by Heidi Jo Brady

The Cat in Freud's Hat

Found a piece of paper in the yard apparently from a neighborhood kid's English assignment list on Lord of the Flies. One assignment option: You will create a PowerPoint presentation comparing the id, ego, and superego in Lord of the Flies and Dr. Seuss's The Cat and the Hat.

My observations: 1. We didn't have PowerPoint when I was in school (we had to use old-fashioned poster board for cool displays). 2. Why didn't they teach us there were Freudian concepts lurking in our Dr. Seuss books?  3. The book is The Cat in the Hat.

A Zombie's Reflections, or A Husband's Reflections

Her brain,
all those coils,
and her thoughts
        shuttling     through
    those       coils     like fast,
frantic      centipedes.

— Gillian Flynn, "Gone Girl"

Melody

Those
crazy
birds
vomiting
song.

— William Saroyan, short story "Resurrection of a Life" (from "Best American Short Stories of the Century")

Fear is a Cannibal

Fear is a cannibal
that feeds upon itself.
It lives in every dark shadow —
waits around every corner.
It can be in two places at once
... on the path ahead, yet
somehow always behind you.
Fear hides in every decision,
questioning your every move.
And it's your fault. You
are the one who gives it life.

— Paul Jenkins, Batman: The Dark Knight, No. 1 (2011)

I think of ...

Link here to a "motionpoem" - "Cogitatio Mortis" by Eric Pankey