No, no dangerously leaning piles of new books this week either. My continuing level of self-restraint surprises you all, doesn’t it?
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas officially opens next week with A Gala Night of Storytelling. I’m very excited to be attending so many wonderful – and mostly free – events over the coming months, as I’ve never really gone to any sort of literary events before. A combination of not really being interested, seeing reading as a solely solitary pursuit, and an illogical presumption that I wouldn’t fit in. This year I’ve decided to throw all self-doubt aside and just go for it, and hopefully I’ll enjoy myself.
Speaking of events, in preparation for a little festivity I am planning for the anniversary of a certain author’s birth in a few weeks, I discovered this photograph of Carson McCullers by Louise Dahl-Wolfe on flickr that I hadn’t seen before. I really haven’t changed all that much from when I was twelve and hunting out new pictures of Hanson, only now it’s with Southern gothic writers from the 1940s.
Painting: “The Bath” (1867) by Alfred Stevens.
I’m excited for the Wheeler’s Centre too and am also attending the Gala this Saturday but I’m most excited about the free events too which I think are a great way to draw in the general public.
I love that painting by Stevens. It’s also the cover picture for Zola’s Nana!
Have fun at the Gala! I wanted to go, but it’s now sold out. I’m going to an event there tomorrow (Friday the 12th) though and (and just quietly, am freaking the frak out!). Hope you have a great time, and if you ever want a buddy to go to any stuff there, like the Debut Mondays, I’d love to go with you
Steph, we shall align our Wheeler calendars at John Waters, not long to go now!