Heather Nanni

The Zelda Fitzgerald Project is back! #ZeldaFitzgerald #FScottFitzgerald #writing #Literature Read my latest here: open.substack.com/pub/thezeldafi…

#ZeldaFitzgerald #FScottFitzgerald

@bertie_lakeland 💗

Happy Easter 🐣 ❤️

"To-day seems like Easter, and I wish we were together walking slow thru the sunshine and the crowds from Church-Everything smells so good and warm, and your ring shines so white in the Sun" ~Zelda Sayre to Scott Fitzgerald, spring 1919 Easter card hand-painted by Zelda, 1942💗

@Booksmiscellany Looks like fun! Enjoy both film and wine!

It's Saturday. The day for watching a DVD with a few glasses of wine. A feel good post-war British romantic comedy, with some very witty lines. The third photograph is a scene from the film, pictured on the back of Michael Wilding's equally amusing autobiography, 'Apple Sauce'.

@Booksmiscellany Old films, old books . . . there’s a particular comfort in them.

@heather_nanni I feel like that too.

I was trying to figure why I read mostly dead people and what I came up with is that I take comfort in the distance of time (old films have the same appeal); I like to luxuriate in the more formal language of the past, and I’m a sucker for a costume drama (cinematic or literary).

@Booksmiscellany Terribly. By the time they were in their thirties they had lost much of their beauty. Scott due to alcoholism. Poor Zelda became almost unrecognizable—in a large part due to the “treatments” she received in psychiatric institutions. 💔

@heather_nanni Such an attractive couple. So sad.

On this day in 1920 Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald embarked on one of the most dysfunctional unions in marital history. That said, despite all the hurt they caused one another, I believe they, each in their own strange way, loved each other until the end.

@RobertAllenPoet Thank you!

@heather_nanni And secretly enjoy Henry James

@RobertAllenPoet Agreed. Time is a huge issue. So many writers, so many poets, sadly so little time. Thank you! Having fun reading French with my daughter. Now if only I can get her to appreciate James. lol Happy reading!

@heather_nanni I do understand . I try my best to mix it up with contemporary poets, and keep a balance. It’s hard though, time is an issue mostly. What poet do I choose to spend my time reading. Enjoy Tana French!

By Elizabeth Jennings . . . #poetry #poetrycommunity

@RobertAllenPoet My daughter, who doesn’t share my love of dead writers, is on spring break, so we’re reading a Tana French book together. First living author I’ve read in ages. She’s fine . . . but I’ve been sneaking in some time with Henry James in the mornings because . . . well you get it.

@heather_nanni I have to remind myself now and then to read somebody who’s alive.

My office desk faces the street, so I was able to spot our neighbor’s new puppy who decided to take himself for a walk. I dashed out of the house looking a mess (hideous really) but was able to catch him before he wandered too far. Made for a good day.🐶🐾❤️

Happy first day of April. Some Emily Dickinson.

Woke up this first of April to worry and brown water (due to hydrant flushing . . . if it was an issue with our house, I think I’d finally lose it.) Anyway, here’s SPRING by Edna St. Vincent Millay “To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough.” #poetry

@amjuster @victoriamoul Congratulations!

I have just: 1) signed a contract for a new book of #poetry & translations; & 2) sent my private editor the last chunk of the #Propertius translation. I'll pace myself for a bit since: 1) we have grandchildren for #Easter; 2) we drive back to MA on Monday; & 3) #Petrarch launch is Tuesday.

Zelda Fitzgerald in 1932 letter to Scott discussing artist and critic lan Gordon's interpretation of and her love for #VincentvanGogh’s paintings. "I loved them at Pran-gins. They reassured me. He goes in the same pathological category as Jeanne d'Arc: savage and oblivious."

@VGrainger She has a way! 💗

@heather_nanni ! Wow x Stunning line Heather. Mary does it again🤍🍃🌸🎼🫶🏻

🎨#Shakespeare’s Miranda by #JWWaterhouse🌬🌊 And, 🎼#Beethoven’s so-called “#TheTempest” Piano Sonata No. 17, Op. 31, No. 2 played by Galina Efimova🤍 As if Waterhouse’s Miranda had wandered from the shore & sat down to play, this is wonderful🎹🎧…m.youtube.com/watch?v=KrgRrZ…

"I have been working on a size 20 canvas in the open air in an orchard, lilac ploughland, a reed fence, two pink peach trees against a sky of glorious blue and white. Probably the best landscape I have done" Vincent van Gogh in letter to Theo dated 3/30/1888 Van Gogh #botd 1853

@ClayFJohnson My God, that’s heartbreaking.

“All that grieves me now is that I was not with him… for it is now known that his recovery was impossible before he left us, and he might have died here with so many friends to soothe him and me, me with him.” —Fanny Brawne, written to John Keats’s sister, 27 March 1821