“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Roseanne Bell
Roseanne Bell is the editor of the anthology Sturdy Black Bridges: visions of Black women in literature.
Aimee Bender
"We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street."
Walter Benjamin
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
E.F. Benson
"An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light."
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Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More