Business tycoon, Pierre Bergé, the famous co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent, has begun selling off works from his own private library. Known to be one of the most valuable collections in private ownership, Bergé has managed already to collect over $11 million within the first round of sales from his collection, all of which went to a foundation set up by Bergé and Saint Laurent to support AIDS research. Image courtesy of https://bit.ly/2f8TINH Of the many rare and beautiful artifacts in Bergé’s library, a particular piece has grabbed headlines. An authentic travel journal by the French writer, Gustave Flaubert. A companion during his journeys through …
After much speculation, it has recently been confirmed that the portrait of Catherine Dickens, the wife of Charles Dickens, currently on display at the Charles Dickens Museum in London, is in fact real. Dickens apparently commissioned his friend and well-renowned artist Daniel Maclise to paint the portrait, although the obvious sloppiness and crudeness of the painting in its current state led many to question its authenticity. image courtesy of https://bit.ly/2e27UZG With help of meticulous study, those looking into the legitimacy of the portrait have confirmed that the state of disrepair is due to attempts to paint over the original. Scans reveal that …
AMC has acquired the rights to Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel, Dietland. They are currently rolling out production for a series based on the book written and produced by the illustrious, Marti Noxon. Equal parts drama and societal critique, the novel follows Plum Kettle, an overweight woman who dreams of the day she can afford her weight reduction surgery.That is until she meets a mysterious woman in neon tights who introduces her to a group of radical feminists that help her come to terms with, and love, her body. This mysterious group becomes more and more militant, and the extremity of their fight …
R.L. Stine is eponymous with children’s horror. The man practically owns the genre. His series of kids’ scary stories, Goosebumps, has over 100 entries and has sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide. Goosebumps Stories That Weren’t Allowed To Be Printed with R.L. Stine from Funny Or Die In his above collaboration with Funny or Die, it’s great to see all the success hasn’t affected his sense of humor. In this hilarious parody, Mr. Stine lists off a group of “rejected stories”, that his publishers were unwilling to circulate. After only a few of these gut-busting hypotheticals, it’s easy to …
Boys are reading far less than girls, and that needs to change. Studies suggest that due to increased testosterone levels, boys get an overdeveloped right brain which increases interest in movement and overview, but makes consistent focus on a page of text harder. In her book 21st Century Boys, author Sue Palmer outlines this theory. According to Palmer, by and large, boys tend to have a harder time not skipping pages and remaining dedicated. Often, with challenge comes aversion. Is there anything that can be done to change these statistics? As a child, my parents going out of their way to expose …
