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How to dress like Zooey Deschanel

We’ve all seen 500 Days of Summer, that 2009 hipster-love anthem where Joseph Gordon-Levitt is whiny and romantic, and Zooey Deschanel is the manic pixie dream girl who gets away. It’s a solid story, sure, but what I remember most about the film isn’t the lovesick moping or The Smiths-heavy soundtrack—it’s…
Rachel Carter
March 20, 2014
Miscellany

Oodles of Doodles: Which type are you?

I knew from a very young age that I was a doodler—in fact, I was a repeat offender. Any time that I had to focus in class, my pen would instantly begin to move across the margins of my three-ring notebook: a flourish of spirals here, a cascade of words…
Amanda Harkness
March 25, 2014
Miscellany

Pecan brownies for the soul

The love affair of Myra Sims and Gabriel Catts will break your heart. And Claybird Catts will steal it. Janis Owens's three novels centering on the life of Myra—who has a past more tragic than most, and a present she just can't seem to hold on to—are beautifully haunting. My…
Ingrid
April 7, 2014
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What’s so great about writing by hand?

For most of my young life, I hated my own handwriting. The other girls in my class wrote with such beautiful, rounded loopy script and I envied them, even the ones who dotted their i's with little hearts. My scratchy letters always came out flattened, each one drooping ever closer…
Carrie Padian
January 12, 2014
Miscellany

It’s (no, not its) National Grammar Day!

Americans have a strange relationship with grammar. Anyone who spends a significant amount of time on Facebook, or perusing the comments section on YouTube (or any website, really, where people are allowed to comment) might conclude that as a culture, we are losing our grasp on the English language. Does…
Melissa Duclos
March 4, 2014
Miscellany

Martha Stewart’s Classic Potato Salad Recipe

In this beautiful volume, a love letter to American food, Martha Stewart, who has so significantly influenced the American table, collects her most favorite national dishes, as well as the stories and traditions behind them. These are recipes that will delight you with nostalgia, inspire you, and teach you about…
BookTrib
June 30, 2013
Miscellany

WHAT MY MOTHER-IN-LAW TAUGHT ME

These are some of the things I know to be true about my mother-in law: She believed without a doubt that her four sons were perfect.  And even if they weren’t, she never said otherwise in public. She taught me to set up the coffee maker in the evening so…
Lee Woodruff
July 16, 2013
Miscellany

Book Club Recipe: The Girl You Left Behind

Meeting with your book club this month to discuss THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND? Try making this amazing dish inspired by the novel. Chou Farci It’s sausage meat, some vegetables and herbs, wrapped in cabbage leaves and poached in stock." When Sophie asks the Kommandant in The Girl You Left…
Ingrid
December 15, 2013