The annual MoCCA festival, a fund-raiser for the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art in New York, is not a comic convention; it's more like a craft show. Marvel and DC aren't there, and nobody is pushing a movie or a video game. It's simply table after table of small publishers and individual creators, all eager to show you their latest creations. At MoCCA, small is beautiful.
Sarah Addison Allen is the critically acclaimed author of four spellbinding novels, the latest of which, THE PEACH KEEPER, is now available in bookstores. Below, she pays a moving tribute to her mother --- nose ring and all.
Photo: Sarah's mom, Louise.
Bottom photo: Mother and daughter.
Daphne Kalotay is the recipient of multiple writing fellowships and the critically acclaimed author of RUSSIAN WINTER, now available in paperback. Below, she shares a heartfelt story about her mother, Jill Kalotay --- who always knows exactly what to do.
Photo: Daphne, right, and mother Jill reading --- What else?
Roger McGough
The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
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Roger McGough
Writing for more than 30 years, Joanna Trollope’s latest book DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW is a straightforward take on our ideas of family. In this ode to her 92-year-old mother, Joanna discusses her mother’s abundant creativity, and how she fostered Joanna’s early love of literature.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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George Bernard Shaw
April 22, 2011
I like celebrating Easter, which, besides its religious significance, also seems to be the official welcome of spring. Maybe its late date is why it still feels like winter here! I am having a group of people over for dinner on Sunday and a couple of weeks ago was obsessing about the perfect tablecloth and napkins, which was endlessly amusing to the men in my house. I found a really elegant set in jacquard linen that are a beautiful shade of green with bunnies and an outdoor garden setting lightly outlined in off-white, as well as some beautiful votive candle holders also with bunnies. It sounds really silly, but thinking about how this table is going to look is making me smile.
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