Delighted the American Masters documentary featured Hendrix’s handwriting so prominently. I copied it as a teenager: http://t.co/yV20GAbCry

— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) November 6, 2013

One more reason to catch this program online.

@OpenCulture points to the early drafts of the Proust novels.

The first drafts of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time." http://t.co/KeHCpthxBC

— Open Culture (@openculture) October 28, 2013

The Online Emily Dickinson Archive Puts 1000s of the Poet’s Manuscripts on the Web: http://t.co/ZSPoyJkwzD

— Open Culture (@openculture) October 23, 2013

OpenCulture and The New York Times report on a newly opened archive of Emily Dickinson's poems and manuscripts.

Justice Kagan:

"Or we write memos to each other," she continued.

"And you know, you have to remember that the Court is an institution where ... we're not horse trading. We're not bargaining. We're reasoning. And we're trying to persuade people. And often 

the best way to do that is by putting things down on paper in a kind of careful and deliberate way

the best way to do that is by putting things down on paper in a kind of careful and deliberate way and saying this is what I think and, and giving people an opportunity to read a memo and to think about it and to reflect on it," she said.

"And so we do a lot of our communicating by these, it looks, it's sort of 19th century. It's very heavy ivory paper — it looks like it came out of the 1800s or something. But it seems to work pretty well," she added. "And when you think about it, how many emails have you sent that you wished you could take back? So, so we're careful and deliberative."

Poetry Foundation's publication announcement for New Directions' The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems includes a short video of Dickinson's envelope poems and the contemporary work they have inspired.

via @proustitute