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It’s Bookshelf Time
Spring is here! And so are new books to the Urchin Bookshelf! Check it before you wreck it. (Actually, don’t wreck it at all. We only have one, and it was given to us by a large man with a … Continue reading
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Tagged alison bechdel, are you my mother, biographies, books, c.s. lewis, desert solitaire, edward abbey, essays, granta, london, london the lives of the city, michael pollan, prince, ronin ro, the botany of desire, the london scene, the omnivore's dilemma, till we have faces, urchin bookshelf, virginia woolf
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The Burning House
The Urchins are by nature a thrifty and resourceful lot. We have all at various times (and at one time in London in particular) made do with very little. We’re by no means ascetics, loving too much things like chocolate, … Continue reading
Urchin Belles Lettres
By Geo Ong Belles lettres. You may have heard that term once or twice in your life. Or things like Jimbo Jones is a man of letters. No, that doesn’t mean that Jimbo is a postman or a spelling bee … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature
Tagged 84 charing cross road, belles lettres, belletrists, boris pasternak, correspondence, e-mails, giacomo casanova, helene hanff, john berge, letters, love letters, marina tsvetayeva, martin luther king jr, poetry, poets, samuel pepys, twinings, virginia woolf, Winston Churchill, writing
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That’s What She Said
Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Money, Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, That's What They Said
Tagged a room of one's own, books, essay, fiction, poverty, virginia woolf, women, women writers
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Last Minute Urchin-Approved Halloween Costume Ideas!
By Sarah Jost There was a time when I planned my Halloween costume months in advance. That time was grade school. Now, Halloween costumes have been added to the ever-growing section of procrastinatable (it’s a word now) items on my … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Television, Holidays, Literature, Sarah
Tagged A Confederacy of Dunces, a room of one's own, communism, Dances with Wolves, easy costumes, Halloween costume ideas, Jocasta, John Kennedy Toole, Kevin Costner, Laius, last minute costume ideas, Mrs. Dalloway, Oedipus, procrastination, Sophocles, The Hours, the Red Scare, virginia woolf
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Revenge of the Partially Decomposed Urchin
By Margaret Hedderman The three Original Urchins™, Margaret, Sarah and Geo set out on holiday. They had scrimped and saved every pence, and together could afford a corner of the rectory in an ancient North Yorkshire church. They arrived late … Continue reading
The New Urchin Bookshelf – Eat Your Heart Out, IKEA!
Here are the books we’ll be burying ourselves inside in the coming months. Our bookshelf has everything from classics revisited to contemporary fiction, from histories to drama, from the women of the twentieth century to the objects in your cellar. … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature
Tagged a short history of nearly everything, anton chekhov, at home, Bill Bryson, books, Chinatown, contemporary fiction, day out of days, dreamers of a new day, england, feminism, fiction, i hotel, karen tei yamashita, london, Mrs. Dalloway, nonfiction, novels, play, russia, sam shepard, san francisco, sheila rowbotham, sixties, the cherry orchard, urchin bookshelf, virginia woolf, western, wild west
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Under a London Sun with Sarah Jost
By Geo Ong My, my, my, Miss Sarah Jost thought, what an unusually clear day! Such a day, such a pity to let it all go to waste! Miss Jost packed in haste her little bag with little snacks; the … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged england, london, Mrs. Dalloway, parks, sarah jost, st. james's park, tube, virginia woolf, walking
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That’s What She Said
For having lived in Westminster–how many years now? over twenty–one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Sarah, That's What They Said, Travel
Tagged london, Mrs. Dalloway, virginia woolf
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Begin from Within: Four Revolutionary Books
Spinning off Margaret’s post on revolutionary songs, we’re proud to present some of our favourite revolutionary books. The truly wonderful thing about compiling a list of titles is coming to understanding that revolution takes all forms and covers many different … Continue reading
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Tagged a room of one's own, Allen Ginsberg, art as social revolution, beats, Big Brother, books, cambridge, essays, feminism, fiction, george orwell, howl, nineteen eighty-four, nonfiction, novels, poetry, ralph waldo emerson, revolution, revolutionary books, self-reliance, totalitarianism, trandscendentalists, transcendentalism, virginia woolf
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