Thursday bloggery

I. This Saturday (11/22): If you're going to the Literary Writers Conference, swing by this panel! "From Blogs to Books and Back," with Luc Sante, Emily Gould, Alexander Chee, and moi, moderated by Marie Mutsuki Mockett. ("...and Back" is nicely optimistic, eh???)

II. From L.G. Thomas:

A) The absurd image of farm animals dancing the tango evokes the clash in Russia between a primarily rural culture and a growing urban life. —The Getty

B) Her striking murals — for the Britain Can Make It exhibition (1947), for the Festival of Britain (1951), for P&O (S.S.Orcades, S.S.Oronsay, S.S.Orsova, S.S.Oriana (1948-1960), and for hotels, restaurants, exhibitions and schools, have all, bar a couple of isolated examples, long since disappeared. Equally as ephemeral were her radio broadcasts — although some may still remember her designs for the Woodentops on children's television. What remains of her work can now only readily be seen (at much smaller scale than the murals) in her books, in her illustrations, her dust-jackets, and other even more fragile and chance survivals. (The present collection, substantial if not wholly complete, preserves the greater part of her published work of this kind). —Ash Rare Books

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT GROUP "THE WOODENTOPS"!?? (Anyone aside from Arlo.)