Born on February 28, 1970,
Daniel Handler is a renowned American novelist, screenwriter and musician. His main contribution is to children’s
literature which he writes under pen name Lemony Snicket. Handler was born to Lou Handler, an
accountant and Sandra Handler Day, an opera singer and retired dean in San
Francisco, California. Handler started
writing poetry for which the Academy of American Poets awarded him the 1990
Poets Prize. However, he directed his
attention toward fiction after brief poetry writing. For a national radio show he produced comedy
sketches alongside writing novels.
Later, he took a freelance movie/book critique job in New York City. Eventually, he published his debut novel in
1999, The Basic Eight. The
novel was rejected repeatedly before its publication for its sarcastic tone and
treatment of a dark subject matter. It
features the character of Flannery Culp, imprisoned for murdering school fellow
and a teacher. Daniel Handler also
earned great praise for writing screenplays.
The first screenplay he wrote was based on Verdi opera Rigoletto. Then he effectively adapted Joel Rose’s Kill
the Poor in the screenplay.
Handler was requested to work on the screenplay of Lemony
Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
However, he finally abandoned the task after producing eight different
drafts, in favor of Robert Gordon’s screenplay for the adaptation. A story collection entitled, Adverbs is
also Handler’s contribution to fiction writing.
https://www.famousauthors.org/daniel-handler See also https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/lemony-snicket/
listing the titles from A Series of Unfortunate Events beginning with #1, The
Bad Beginning (1999) through #13, The End (2006).
Quotes
by Daniel Handler “A
library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance,
particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been
flooded.” “This is love, to sit with
someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching
as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.” “Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you
say offensive things. It’s not a free
pass.” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7176.Daniel_Handler
Albion is an alternative name for the island of Great Britain.
It is sometimes used poetically to refer to the island, but has fallen
out of common use in English. The name
for Scotland in most of the Celtic languages
is related to Albion: Alba in Scottish Gaelic, Albain (genitive Alban)
in Irish, Nalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh and Cornish.
These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which
were once alternative names for Scotland. New Albion and Albionoria ("Albion of
the North") were briefly suggested as names of Canada during the period of
the Canadian
Confederation. Arthur Phillip, first leader of the
colonisation of Australia, originally named Sydney Cove "New Albion", but
later the colony acquired the name "Sydney".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion
Here
Are The 13 Artworks Stolen The Night Of The Gardner Museum Heist by Lloyd Schwartz
The list includes 'The Concert' by
Johannes Vermeer (1663-1666). The
Vermeer is generally considered the rarest and most valuable of the lost
treasures—at least partly because so few of his paintings are known to exist.
(The current consensus is 37, but some scholars still have doubts about the
genuineness of three of them.) See
detailed descriptions and illustrations at https://www.wbur.org/artery/2018/08/20/lastseen-gardner-heist-missing-art
Despite some promising
leads in the past, the Gardner theft of 1990 remains unsolved. The Museum, the FBI, and the US
Attorney's office are still seeking viable leads that could result in safe
return of the art.
The Museum is offering a
reward of $10 million for information leading directly to the recovery of all
13 works in good condition. A separate
reward of $100,000 is being offered for the return of the Napoleonic eagle
finial. https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft#gref
The Hermitage Academic
Library is Russia’s largest and one of its oldest museum libraries. Dedicated to art history, it has been an
unalienable part of the Hermitage since its foundation. It is believed to have been created in 1762,
the year when Catherine the Great established the position of a librarian for
her book collection. At present, the
Academic Library contains over 800 000 publications on art, history and
historical sciences, and architecture in Russian and many European and Oriental
languages. The Academic Library consists
of the Central Library and eight branches at the museum’s curatorial
departments: the Department of Western
European Fine Art and Department of Western European Applied Art Library, the
Department of Classical Antiquities Library, the Oriental Department Library,
the Department of Eastern European and Siberian Archaeology Library, the
Numismatic Department Library, the Menshikov Palace Library, and the Imperial
Porcelain Manufactory Museum Library. Find
contact information at
“There was always a buzz
when he entered a room, a buzz that could be described as negative.” “He described his overstuffed warehouse,
where he stored his paintings, as either ‘a junkyard with gems or a gemyard
with junk’"
“Tissot [Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836–1902), Anglicized
as James Tissot, a French painter and illustrator] was the master of a
small subject--the rich--and he swathed the women in yards of fabric and
painted them midflounce as they disembarked from boats, lounged in parks, or
sat on window seats overlooking the sea."
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/549017010795141008/ “She neared 54th Streer, where the
bike path emerged from under the highway trestle and the buildings retreated,
giving the feeling that Manhattan was doing its best to have a prairie.” An Object of Beauty, novel by Steve Martin See also Steve
Martin Finds His Muse In 'An Object Of Beauty', an interview heard on
Talk of the Nation at https://www.npr.org/2010/11/29/131671947/steve-martin-muses-on-an-object-of-beauty
There are three typical
types of odes: the Pindaric, Horatian,
and Irregular. The Pindaric is named for
the ancient Greek poet Pindar, who is credited with innovating this choral ode
form (as opposed to monodies, odes sung by individuals, which were written by
Greek lyric poets Alcaeus and Sappho).
Pindaric odes were performed with a chorus and dancers, and often
composed to celebrate athletic victories.
The William Wordsworth poem "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from
Recollections of Early Childhood" is a very good example
of an English language Pindaric ode. The
Horatian ode, named for the Roman poet Horace, is generally more tranquil and
contemplative than the Pindaric ode.
Less formal, less ceremonious, and better suited to quiet reading than
theatrical production, the Horatian ode typically uses a regular, recurrent
stanza pattern. An example is the Allen
Tate poem "Ode to the Confederate Dead" . The Irregular ode has employed all manner of
formal possibilities, while often retaining the tone and thematic elements of
the classical ode. For example, "Ode
on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats was written based on his
experiments with the sonnet. https://poets.org/glossary/ode
June 1, 2020 Almost half a million people logged on to
watch stars like Sandi Toksvig, Tori Amos and Stephen Fry at the first online
Hay Festival. The 33rd edition of the
literary event was free and broadcast online over
the past two weeks after receiving donations of £350,000. The Hay Festival went digital for this
year because coronavirus lockdown rules meant
it could not be staged in Powys.
"Hundreds of thousands" enjoyed Hay for the first time,
organisers said. "We've seen
writers, actors and scientists respond to the technology with imagination and
daring," said director Peter Florence.
Novelist and poet Margaret Atwood, actor Benedict Cumberbatch and
actress Helena Bonham Carter joined the likes of comedian and broadcaster Fry,
The Great British Bake Off presenter Toksvig and singer Amos at this year's
Hay. The
festival boasted 100 award-winning writers and it attracted 490,000 people from
70 countries. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-52875868?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology&link_location=live-reporting-story
April 24, 2020 COMING TO YOU LIVE FROM THE LIBRARY! by Rica Bouso Enjoy
virtual story times from Chicago’s most familiar faces and beloved
librarians—live from the library!
June 3, 2020 Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing
method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the
ancient Maya civilization--a colossal rectangular elevated platform built
between 1,000 and 800 BC in Mexico’s Tabasco state. The structure, unlike the soaring Maya
pyramids at cities like Tikal in Guatemala and Palenque in Mexico erected some
1,500 years later, was not built of stone but rather of clay and earth, and
likely was used for mass rituals, researchers said. Located at a site called Aguada Fenix near
the Guatemalan border, the structure measured nearly a quarter mile (400
meters) wide and nine-tenths of a mile (1,400 meters) long and stood 33 to 50
feet (10 to 15 meters) high. In total
volume, it exceeded ancient Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza built 1,500 years
earlier. Will Dunham https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-maya/oldest-and-largest-ancient-maya-structure-found-in-mexico-idUSKBN23A2EH
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2280
June 5, 2020
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