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Fritz Lang, director of M & Metropolis, died #OTD in 1976. He was dubbed the "Master of Darkness." As he said "I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence."
Two of the books I am most excited about are both coming out in the US tomorrow: The Plentiful Darkness by @HeatherKassner & Eva Evergreen & The Cursed Witch by @julieabebooks
Since it's #InternationalFriendshipDay who are your favorite friendships from literature?
Call me naive or a hopeless dreamer but I just want the world to be as gentle as a Little Bear story.
(illustrations by Maurice Sendak)
Forget entitled rich guys and their vanity trips to space. Instead, let us focus on the wonder that is Medieval rocket cats.
Reading, for me, was more than mere escapism. Reading was a comfort and consolation - a connection to a world I often felt outside of.
(illustrations by Elise Hurst)