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ISMs: Quotations for a new generation

Princeton University Press
Books of quotations have had a place in publishing for centuries. The most widely distributed collection of quotations in English is...
8 months ago

Bartlett’s Familiar-to-Liberals Quotations

Cato Institute
Somewhere along the way, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations became the gold standard of quotations, the place anyone can go to confirm a quote...
21 months ago

Terry McMillan remembers the book that spoke to her one summer

The Washington Post
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations” opened up a world of thoughts and feelings.
101 months ago

Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's “Familiar Quotations," reveals his m.o.

Harvard Magazine
Man of letters (and movies, and newspapers, and television) Justin Kaplan '45, G '47, lives in a roomy, hundred-year-old house on Francis Avenue in...
128 months ago

The Story Behind “Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations”

The New Yorker
Retha Powers is the editor of the first edition of “Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations,” and she has been touring with her book for the...
128 months ago

Words of Love, Pain, Protest and Motown (Published 2013)

The New York Times
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was probably the first great African-American food writer. She regularly hauled her appetites into her prose.
132 months ago

'Hemingway Didn't Say That' (And Neither Did Twain Or Kafka)

NPR
Author Garson O'Toole has a simple explanation for why quotes are often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain.
91 months ago

New Bartlett's focuses on blacks, from MLK to Latifah

USA Today
When bookstore owner John Bartlett published A Collection of Familiar Quotations in 1855, he included only a few black writers and thinkers.
131 months ago

Here Are 6 Things Albert Einstein Never Said | HISTORY

History.com
A new book investigates the truth behind famous quotations that have been wrongly attributed, misremembered, garbled in translation—or are...
91 months ago

Portraits Of Blackness

guernicamag.com
The general editor of the first major collection of black quotations on art and expression throughout African-American history.
131 months ago