Truman Capote “I am a completely horizontal author,” Capote told The Paris Review in 1957. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched out on a couch with a cigarette and coffee handy. I’ve got to be puffing and sipping. As the afternoon wears on, I shift from coffee to mint tea to sherry to martinis.” The above is an excerpt from Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. High-res

Truman Capote

“I am a completely horizontal author,” Capote told The Paris Review in 1957. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched out on a couch with a cigarette and coffee handy. I’ve got to be puffing and sipping. As the afternoon wears on, I shift from coffee to mint tea to sherry to martinis.”

The above is an excerpt from Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.

8 Ideal Graduation Gifts from Prosaic to Practical It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ― e.e. cummings Give your special graduate words of wisdom and practical advice.  Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking by James Peterson Q & A a Day: 5-Year Journal What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self by Ellyn Spragins The First Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips High-res

8 Ideal Graduation Gifts from Prosaic to Practical

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ― e.e. cummings


Give your special graduate words of wisdom and practical advice. 

Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives by Katie Couric

Kitchen Simple: Essential Recipes for Everyday Cooking by James Peterson

Q & A a Day: 5-Year Journal

What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self by Ellyn Spragins

The First Apartment Book: Cool Design for Small Spaces

Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World’s Greatest Trips

“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language.”                                                                         -Caroline Kennedy Give mom a book this Mother’s Day and thank her for being your very own Jackie Kennedy. With or Without You by Domenica Ruta Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe High-res

“One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language.”

                                                                        -Caroline Kennedy

Give mom a book this Mother’s Day and thank her for being your very own Jackie Kennedy.

With or Without You by Domenica Ruta

Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou

Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk

The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett

Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

BIOGRAPHILE: What was your inspiration for writing the book – beyond, obviously, needing to pay for a bigger apartment? JIM GAFFIGAN: I think any creative person secretly desires to write a book. Writing a book, it’s like having a trophy! For me, I spent a couple of years falling over how I wanted to approach writing about being a parent. Because, as I mention in the book, I’m not someone who should really be in charge of a houseplant – I’m a lazy guy, my career is a nocturnal, isolated, self-centered profession, so it seems unlikely that I would be a parent. As a comedian, I wanted my material to have a universal appeal, so I found myself censoring discussing my kids in my act. I used to be that twenty-three-year-old sitting in the comedy club watching a comedian talk about their wife or husband and kids, and just not being interested. But Twitter contributed a lot; it opened an outlet to discuss what it’s like to be a parent, and for me to really find my point of view about parenting. I’m not one of these people who says, “I hate my kids,” and I’m not all sappy about my kids – I’m just kind of befuddled. Doing my best. Twitter really helped me find my way, but I didn’t want to do a book of tweets, I wanted it to be a book of substance, where if I picked it up, I would want to read it, and I would find it of value. I didn’t want it to be an exercise in narcissism, and I wanted some solid comedy in the observations. For more: http://www.biographile.com/parenting-is-hilarious-a-qa-with-jim-gaffigan-author-of-dad-is-fat/17497/?ref=tumblr_corp_bio-jim-gaffigan High-res

BIOGRAPHILE: What was your inspiration for writing the book – beyond, obviously, needing to pay for a bigger apartment?

JIM GAFFIGAN: I think any creative person secretly desires to write a book. Writing a book, it’s like having a trophy! For me, I spent a couple of years falling over how I wanted to approach writing about being a parent. Because, as I mention in the book, I’m not someone who should really be in charge of a houseplant – I’m a lazy guy, my career is a nocturnal, isolated, self-centered profession, so it seems unlikely that I would be a parent.

As a comedian, I wanted my material to have a universal appeal, so I found myself censoring discussing my kids in my act. I used to be that twenty-three-year-old sitting in the comedy club watching a comedian talk about their wife or husband and kids, and just not being interested. But Twitter contributed a lot; it opened an outlet to discuss what it’s like to be a parent, and for me to really find my point of view about parenting. I’m not one of these people who says, “I hate my kids,” and I’m not all sappy about my kids – I’m just kind of befuddled. Doing my best. Twitter really helped me find my way, but I didn’t want to do a book of tweets, I wanted it to be a book of substance, where if I picked it up, I would want to read it, and I would find it of value. I didn’t want it to be an exercise in narcissism, and I wanted some solid comedy in the observations.

For more: http://www.biographile.com/parenting-is-hilarious-a-qa-with-jim-gaffigan-author-of-dad-is-fat/17497/?ref=tumblr_corp_bio-jim-gaffigan