June 2012
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“I am by trade a novelist. It is, I think, a harmless trade, though it is not...”
– From The Clockwork Condition, by Anthony Burgess (via wwnorton)
May 2012
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“I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting...”
– Alice Hoffman (via homeward-thesewolves)
Zadie Smith reads a Frank O'Hara poem as voice... →
“Gatsby is a book that has come to mean something to peoplethat sometimes feels...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on The Great Gatsby. (via theatlantic)
Pulitzer winner to publish new story, one tweet at... →
bobbyfinger:
Jennifer Egan’s publishing her story one tweet at a time and I’mma star all of ‘em.
(H/T Lindsey)
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The man sits on a toilet, facing the chipped bathroom door.
On the door hangs a mirror.
The man soliloquizes: “Often, I find I am full of shit.”
Then realizes he is out of toilet paper.
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beatonna:
I made a visit to an old folks home and I really liked it, so I felt like drawing some of the conversations. Here, and also here, which was really cute.
These are adorable.
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“Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
(via thepen)
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“‘No one fools anyone much, except himself,’ said Jacob, to himself....”
– Delmore Schwartz, “The World Is a Wedding”
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“Jacob and his friends had prospered in school, and most of all at the...”
– Delmore Schwartz, “The World Is a Wedding”
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“What is it, he said to himself, that I do not see in myself, because it is of...”
– Delmore Schwartz, “America! America!”
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“As Shenandoah listened to his mother, he became nervous. He was not sure at any...”
– Delmore Schwartz, “America! America!”
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“And indeed, apart from doing business, Mr. Baumann enjoyed funerals for their...”
– Delmore Schwartz, “America! America!”
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“My father tells my mother how much money he has made in the past week,...”
– Delmore Schwartz, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”
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“I feel as if I had by now relaxed entirely in the soft darkness of the theatre;...”
– Delmore Schwartz, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities”
