I don't want to be modern!

Who remembers when Mr Hooper was on Sesame Street ?

Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, will be honored with a “Forever stamp” by the U.S. Postal Service later today. Ride and four male colleagues went up into the atmosphere aboard the space shuttle Challenger in June 1983. The following year, she launched into space with the first flight crew to have two women members. Picture of stamp via @uspostalservice. #SallyRide #SallyRideForever #AstronautStamps #space #astronaut

Florence Welch performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall

Since opening day on May 23, 1911, the Library’s stone lions Patience and Fortitude have watched the world change dramatically from their perch on 5th Avenue. And they’ll be here for whatever comes next.

Time for another #WriterCrushWednesday (this one is our #1 bestseller at the moment)! 💞Zora Neale Hurston’s previously unpublished nonfiction, Barracoon, has finally hit the shelves. 👉In it, Hurston meticulously chronicals the account of Kossola (a.k.a. Cudjo), the last recorded survivor of the Atlantic slave trade. The book provides a rare and complex perspective on slavery in the landscape of historical literature which often contains “words from the seller, but not one word from the sold” (Hurston). •• #writercrush #bookrecommendation (at Strand Book Store)

Homer Page, The El at 86th, New York, 1949. 

Ernst Haas, New York, c. 1937-59.  

This week we’re chuckling at the funniest lines in literature.

ARCADE FIRE AND FLORENCE WELCH 😱

Photo: ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Caitriona Balfe | Outlander Season 3 Gag Reel/Bloopers Ep 10

Nothing more annoying in a fight than a good point. 

Pigeons With Attitude - Straight Outta Coopton [2018]

“Even then, she knew that there is no such thing as sure. There is no absolute anything. The gods love to fuck with us.” ― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies