“One needs contact with others to stay young.”  Trick of the Eye, a novel by Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born Jane Johnston Crowley 1946) is a New York Times bestselling American author, playwright, and screenwriter.  She has written several plays but is known mostly for her mystery novels Trick of the Eye, The Witches' Hammer, Social Crimes, One Dangerous Lady, Mortal Friends, and Bluff--her sixth novel that pays tribute to her passion for poker--and the winner of the 2019 Hammett Prize.  Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love.  Hitchcock wrote a screenplay (under the name Jane C. Stanton) for the 1974 film Our Time, directed by Peter Hyams.  The film was set in 1955 at an all-girls boarding school in Massachusetts and dealt with the issue of abortion in a privileged setting.  In 1977, Paramount released First Love, a film written by Hitchcock who shared credit with David Freeman, and was directed by Joan Darling.  In 1981, The American Place Theatre produced Hitchcock's play Grace under the direction of Peter Thompson.  The Off-Broadway play was Hitchcock's "first professional New York production."  In 1983, another play by Hitchcock, a farce entitled Bhutan, was staged at the South Street Theater in Manhattan.  Hitchcock's theatrical adaptation titled The Custom of the Country, based on Edith Wharton's novel by the same name, was staged by Shakespeare & Company at The Mount, Wharton's former home in Lenox, Massachusetts.  In September 1985, the play was staged by the Second Stage Theatre under the direction of Daniel Gerroll.  In 1990, Hitchcock's Vanilla, a play directed by Harold Pinter, was staged at London's Lyric Theatre.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Stanton_Hitchcock and https://janestantonhitchcock.com/ 

“You can’t pour from an empty cup—take care of yourself.”  “Every day is a gift.”  Slogans from puzzles on jigidi.com

Lupin or lupini beans are the yellow legume seeds of the genus Lupinus.  They are traditionally eaten as a pickled snack food, primarily in the Mediterranean basin (L. albus), Latin America (L. mutabilis) and North Africa (L. angustifolius).  The most ancient evidence of lupin is from ancient Egypt, dating back to the 22nd century BCE.  The bitter variety of the beans are high in alkaloids and are extremely bitter unless rinsed methodically.  Low alkaloid cultivars called sweet lupins have been bred, and are increasingly planted.  Lupin beans are growing in use as a plant-based protein source around the world.  The earliest archaeological reports on lupins are referred to the Twelfth Dynasty of Egyptian Pharaohs.  In their tombs, seeds of Lupinus digitatus Forsk., already domesticated in those times, were discovered.  Seven seeds of this species were also retrieved in the tombs of this dynasty dated back to the 22nd century BCE.  They are the most ancient evidence of lupin in the Mediterranean.  Lupin is very popular in Egypt (known by the name "termes") and is eaten by the Egyptians as a main snack during the Sham el-Nessim festival, which is a national festival in Egypt whose history goes back to ancient Egyptian times.  Lupini were popular with the Romans, who spread their cultivation throughout the Roman Empire.  Today, lupini are most commonly found in Mediterranean countries and their former colonies, especially in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Brazil, and across the Middle East.  The Andean American variety of this bean, Lupinus mutabilis, was domesticated by pre-Incan inhabitants of present-day Peru.  Rock imprints of seeds and leaves, dated around 6th and 7th century BCE, are exhibited in the National Museum of Lima.  It was a food widespread during the Incan Empire.  Lupins were also used by Native Americans in North America, e.g. the Yavapai people.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_bean  In Italy, lupini beans are mixed with olives to be served as snacks at Christmas time.  They are also added to hot and cold salads.  The beans are also used in making lupini flour, and even tofu!  posted by Diana  Find recipe and pictures at https://littlesunnykitchen.com/lupini-beans/ 

Sir William Gerald Golding (1911–1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.  Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime.  In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.  As a result of his contributions to literature, Golding was knighted in 1988.  He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".   Link to works, including those unpublished, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding  See also https://william-golding.co.uk/books/the-paper-men 

North Carolina writer Jason Mott has won the National Book Foundation’s 2021 prize for fiction, for his novel Hell of a Book.  The US foundation’s 72nd annual awards, presented online only due to Covid-19, were announced on November 18, 2021.  Mott is best known for his 2013 bestselling debut novel The Returned, about the reappearance of dead residents in a Missouri town, which was later adapted into the US TV series Resurrection.  Kelly Burke  Find list of additional winners at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/18/national-book-awards-jason-mott-wins-us-literary-prize-for-masterful-novel-hell-of-a-book 

four score and seven years ago (not comparable)  adverb  (idiomatic, often humorous) Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago. This phrase begins the Gettysburg Address, which was made by United States President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863.   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ago#English 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2458  November 19, 2021