- Saturday, October 20, 2012
- Painting Arts Education
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Trying to slow down the book buying, I was delighted to sign on to Twitter this morning and see Jessa Crispin's (The Bookslut) link to free etexts available from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. You can download or read online 368 books, and my first one will be American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765?1915, edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt (2009). Not sure how my plain vanilla Kindle will handle the paintings, but they look good online.
In addition to this treasure trove, check out the The Library of America's free?Story of the Week. Via a button in the upper right corner of the linked page, you can sign up for a weekly e-mail alert announcing each new story. I have been doing some catch-up on Americans such as Djuna Barnes, who lived in Paris in the 'Twenties and also made a name for herself as a journalist and character-about-town in New York. Her 1914 story "Come Into the Roof Garden, Maud" shows the leisure class at play, dancing on the rooftop of a local night spot.
The Louisa May Alcott story is so-so, dripping with sentimentality, but also illustrating her abolitionist sympathies. I look forward to sampling some stories by authors not read in a while: Paul Bowles, Zora Neale Hurston, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Bret Harte and Artemus Ward. So far 146 stories have been posted. It is a varied collection and a?nice resource when you only have time for a short fiction break.
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