craft, inc.

Maybe I'll take a look at this sometime: Craft, Inc. Revised Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Your Creative Hobby into a Successful Business

Recommended by Lisa Wong Jackson

In this interview on Design Sponge.

james baldwin.

"A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven."

Stumbled upon this via Brain Pickings, and kind of love the James Baldwin quote. This is a reminder to go look at his books and essays and pick something to read.

dear mr. you.

Title: Dear Mr. You

Author: Mary-Louise Parker

Why Read: 

In short: it's new (published Nov 2015), I have liked watching Mary-Louise Parker in the past, I love epistolary novels, and it's a good one. She's created a book where you don't know which of the letters is to a real person in her life or if they're made up (I don't know that much about her personal life, just a snippet of a story about the father of her first child), but it serves as a memoir of her life, despite all the letters being written to men.*

Particularly moving was the last letter in the book, "Dear Oyster Picker", which also explains why there's an oyster shell on the cover of the book. I found myself tearing up, as several letters in the book also brought. Highly recommended, especially if you have enjoyed memoirs in the past.

*One of the letters is written to a billy goat. Seriously. And it's good. Maybe the goat's not real either.

go set a watchman.

Title: Go Set A Watchman

Author: Harper Lee

Why Read: 

Well, to be perfectly honest, I finally read this because Harper Lee just died in February. I think probably I would have read it eventually, but forgot about it until I read her obit, and remembered to put a hold on it at the library. It's fun to read some more stories about Scout and Jem and Atticus, but it's embroiled in Civil Rights South. There's a lot of arguing, which got me a little agitated. It sounds like her books are pretty autobiographical, which makes me want to read more about Harper Lee's actual life. And maybe watch one of those movies that came out a while ago about Truman Capote (Dill?). Or maybe just read To Kill A Mockingbird again.

Hey, what do you know! Capote is available for free on Prime Video now. Neat.