{"id":5273,"date":"2017-06-01T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T03:44:13","slug":"miscellaneous-memoranda-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/miscellaneous-memoranda-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Memoranda"},"content":{"rendered":"

– From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em> turns fifty this year and The Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> has a great article about the true story behind the book<\/a>. Really, that book is the only reason I\u2019d ever want to visit New York (although sadly, the bed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that Claudia and Jamie slept in and the fountain they bathed in are no longer there). And did you know there was a film made in 1973 called The Hideaways<\/em>, starring Ingrid Bergman as Mrs Frankweiler? The trailer<\/a> looks \u2026 not very good. Has anyone seen the film?<\/p>\n

– And speaking of beloved books, did you know that I Capture the Castle<\/em> has been made into a musical<\/a>?<\/p>\n

– Here\u2019s an interesting article<\/a> about the day jobs of various famous authors. Did you know that Dorothy Sayers worked in advertising and devised the \u2018Toucan\u2019 Guinness ads? And that Jack London was an \u2018oyster pirate\u2019, and Vladimir Nabokov a butterfly curator in a museum, and Harper Lee an airline ticketing clerk?<\/p>\n

– Sadly, authors need to scrounge for money because \u201ccelebrity deals are shutting children’s authors out of their own trade<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

– Regarding Nabokov, apparently his favourite word was “mauve”. A new book by Ben Blatt<\/a> reports on the statistical analysis of thousands of ‘classics’ and contemporary bestsellers, concluding that while women write about both men and women, men write overwhelmingly about men; that the writers who used the most clich\u00e9s were all men and those who used the least clich\u00e9s were all women; and that Tolkien really liked exclamation marks.<\/p>\n

– Finally, here are instructions<\/a> for how to turn your boring conventional shoes into shoes that look like pigeons. (My favourite part of the story is that Kyoto Ohata created the shoes because she was worried her regular shoes were upsetting the pigeons she encountered on her daily walks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler turns fifty this year and The Smithsonian Magazine has a great article about the true story behind the book. Really, that book is the only reason I\u2019d ever want to visit New York (although sadly, the bed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that Claudia … Continue reading Miscellaneous Memoranda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,7,8],"tags":[103,212],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-books","category-film-and-tv","category-this-writing-life","tag-dodie-smith","tag-e-l-konigsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}