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Owl & Turtle Bookshop Cafe, Camden, Maine

David Levine on writers: Barbara Tuchman

David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.  

Lit Toons: Cartoons with a bookish bent

First Lines: John Fowles

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay – Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England’s outstretched southwestern leg – and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustering morning in the late March of 1867.

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

John Fowles

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 12

James E. Gunn  (1923)

Pablo Neruda  (1904)

Henry David Thoreau  (1817)

Donald E. Westlake  (1933)

 

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