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Hello 27 Nov 2012 | 03:59 pm
Huge apologies for the lack of updates — Lists of Note is currently on hiatus while I write the Letters of Note book (due out May 2013.) After its publication, I shall turn the lights back on in here....
Mastering the Art of French Cooking 15 Aug 2012 | 05:52 pm
On October 31st of 1960, in a letter to her editor at Alfred A. Knopf publishers, the great Julia Child included a list — seen below — of 28 title suggestions for her forthcoming debut cookbook. The l...
What I Won't and Will Miss 27 Jun 2012 | 03:10 pm
The great Nora Ephron passed away yesterday, aged 71, following a battle with leukemia that began in 2006. She had many strings to her bow, but most notably wrote the screenplays to some of the best l...
Einstein's Demands 19 Apr 2012 | 12:15 am
By 1914, Albert Einstein's marriage to his wife of 11 years, Mileva Marić, was fast deteriorating. Realising there was no hope for their relationship on a romantic level, Einstein proposed that they r...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Turkey Recipes 12 Apr 2012 | 02:34 am
During his lifetime, the great F. Scott Fitzgerald filled numerous notebooks with ideas, letters, jokes and essays. My favourite of these items, and the most amusing by quite a margin, is the followin...
Rules of Palship 11 Apr 2012 | 02:19 am
In August of 1915, 14-year-old Noël Coward and his best friend, the actress Esmé Wynne, half-jokingly drew up the following "Rules of Palship," mainly in an attempt to minimise arguments in what was a...
11 Rules for Box-Office Appeal 5 Apr 2012 | 09:36 pm
In 1941, a year after his movie, The Great McGinty, won the first ever Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, celebrated screenwriter/director and "father of the screwball comedy," Preston Sturge...
Dr. Strangelove 4 Apr 2012 | 02:34 am
From one of Stanley Kubrick's notebooks comes a list of potential titles for the 1964 movie that was eventually named, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Interesting...
Simple Rules for Life in London 3 Apr 2012 | 12:26 am
On June 9th of 1908, as his youngest daughter, 12-year-old Elsie, prepared for a trip to London, author Rudyard Kipling wrote her a letter in which the following list of "rules for Life in London" was...
Thurber's Rules 30 Mar 2012 | 04:01 am
In his 1949 book, Thurber Country, celebrated author, cartoonist and satirist James Thurber offers some amusing rules for comedy writers, "established [...] after receiving dozens of humorous essays a...
