why not now go toward the things I love?

 

Myrna and Flowers, c. 1920s Scanned from Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming by kylarose

by Tatyana Yuganova

a few poems i’ve loved recently

• Grief Work by Natalie Díaz
• The Two-headed Calf by Laura Gilpin
• Everything by Mary Oliver
• The Moths by Mary Oliver

a summer moodboard made from pinterest photos

literary Paris in the 1920s and ballet

(Isn’t F. Scott Fitzgerald’s handwriting the most beautiful handwriting you’ve ever seen?)

I went on this tangent because of this artricle by Joan Acocella for The New Yorker—I’ve been fascinated by Zelda Fitzgerald since I read Save Me The Waltz last year, and I didn’t realise how many parallels there were between here life and Lucia Joyce’s (well, parallels meaning Swiss sanitariums and ballet lessons from Lubov Egorova, schizophrenia, Paris, want of artistic expression, and famous writer males—husband in Zelda’s case, father in Lucia’s—but that’s enough overlap to make you wonder, right?)

Also, The Great Gatsby was published eighty-eight years ago yesterday.

Two things to listen to:
James Joyce reading from Finnegan’s Wake
F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Shakespeare

“5 April: Wild spring. Scudding clouds. O life! Dark stream of swirling bogwater on which appletrees have cast down their delicate flowers. Eyes of girls among the leaves. Girls demure and romping. All fair or auburn: no dark ones. They blush better.” – James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

monday mood-board

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

style inspiration

Mid-thigh length dresses/coats, flat shoes, tights—I’ll never get tired of that.

I’ve always loved that first photo—I don’t know what it is about it, but it’s one of my favourite, favourite fashion editorial images, ever. You can see more here.

Ashcan School

My most recent art-related obsession has been the Ashcan School. This blog has a lot of their art, and most of the images I’ve found of their paintings come from there. I wanted to share a few favourites...

John Sloan;

Easter Eve, 1907

Movies, Five Cents, 1907

Picture Shop Window, 1907-8

Chinese Restaurant, 1909

Wet Night, Washington Square, 1928

William Glackens;

Twenty-Fifth Avenue, Interior, 1910

The Drive, Central Park, 1905

Young Woman in Green, 1915

Everett Shinn;

Girl on Stage, c. 1906

Ballet Dancers, 1911

All Night Café, 1900

The White Ballet, 1904


The Orchestra Pit, Old Proctor’s Fifth Avenue Theater, 1906-7

monday mood-board

monday mood-board

La Pâtisserie Gloppe aux Champs-Élysées by Jean Béraud, 1889

obsessions of the moment;
Kusmi tea, cherry blossoms, blue china, Persian rugs, La Belle Époque, the Don Quixote Grand Pas de Deux, Imperial Russia, Oscar Wilde, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Jean Béraud, ranunculus