July 2010
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The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love by Jens...
“so when are you going to win the lottery so neither of us have to work again in...”
– Amanda
Why do I have to do all the dirty work?!
Anybody live/know about Norristown, PA?
I’m up for a position down that way and am wondering if it is worth the move.
Tumblr Couch surfing?
I need a vacation. Badly. My sanity is already gone.
“The interrobang is a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point....”
– The Culture of the Interrobang
“The man at Kacy’s door was smaller than she’d expected. His voice on the phone...”
– Dinaburg’s Cake - The Rumpus.net
A short story from Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. This was voted The Rumpus Book Club’s favorite short story from The Surf Guru collection. Click the link to read the rest.
tesslynch:
wolf parade — this heart’s on fire
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Another reason why I'm upset with New York State.
mandygranger:
http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_4a7f02fe-975d-11df-80a1-001cc4c03286.html
Really? This is pretty revolting.
NY isn’t the only state doing that though…
“In a work of fiction, one assumes there is a conscious mind behind the words on...”
– From The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
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gracielalala asked: please don't be offended by how inarticulate i am. my frequent omfgs, lmaos, and hahahas tend to undermine my thoughts when really they are simply the best expressions of my excitement, etc.
poetbabble asked: It's a very quiet book, one feels cloistered reading it. And yet, it is multi-layered, and much bigger of a read than it first appears. I want to read it again, now that I have the actual narrative...I'd like to read it as a writer, read for all the symbolism and references and metaphor and analogy...
If you do read, I'd love to hear your thoughts...
If you do read, I'd love to hear your thoughts...
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I See You!
We’re all on mandatory overtime this month; we’re behind, or we want to get ahead. I never got the memo, really, other than the brief note of “you are working overtime until…well…further notice” with no explanation. I don’t mind: extra cash —- time and a half — good karma for when I decide I’ve had enough for one day and need to leave...
Obama a “Socialist”? I Wish! →
midnightinaperfectworld:
shorterexcerpts:
fleetfootedfox:
thesheeportheshepherd:
feistyfeminist:
carsonsuggs:
I wish Obama had pressed for single-payer national health care.
I wish Obama had nationalized Citicorp and Bank of America, rather than bail them out.
I wish he would have favored breaking up the rest of the big banks so they couldn’t destroy our economy.
I wish he would...
bygrabtharshammer:
here i dreamt i was an...
“In one of Allen Ginsberg’s more crazily virtuosic letters to his sometime soul...”
– Books of The Times - ‘Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - The Letters’ - NYTimes.com
Added to the list of books I would like to check out; considering my obsession with correspondence between people (not just famous).
“Our conclusion is that there’s no data to prove any connection—good or...”
– Madeline McIntosh
Yeah, everyone can keep freaking out about Amazon’s “announcement” that e-books have out-sold hardbacks. Honestly, I think Amazon is full of shit. No statistics were given to back up their claim so we’re supposed to just take their word? No thanks.
“Now Murakami has created speculation that there might still be another volume....”
– Monocolumn – How to keep them begging for more [Monocle]
What? I think it is ridiculous that I have to wait until 2011 to get my hands on the first three parts in English but now with the possibility of two more parts…that might be extended? Guh!
“One of the most fruitless questions that can be asked of religions is whether or...”
– New Statesman - Not the messiah
“And, increasingly, irrevocably, I am a stranger to books, to the long-form text,...”
– Essay - Only Disconnect - NYTimes.com
One of the best essays to come out of the NYTimes in awhile.
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Have A Heart: “The Heart” by Stephen Crane &... →
A comparison between Stephen Crane and Roberto Bolaño
“[S]ince we do float on an unknown sea I think we should examine the other...”
– Elizabeth Bishop
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
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I Summon You by Spoon
A Spoon sort of day.
poetbabble:
It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
-Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
After all the quotes you have posted from Bel Canto, I decided that I have to check it out. Thanks for enabling my book addiction.
