April 2011
30 posts
“Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least a...”
– Roberto Bolaño, Exiles (via nybooks)
Apr 14th
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In case you missed it
Here are Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog (and a theoretical physicist) having a chat. Spoiler alert: Herzog reads from All the Pretty Horses, and it’s everything you’d hope it could be. 
Apr 12th
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Norm MacDonald v. Jonathan Franzen →
Apr 7th
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Apr 7th
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Cormac McCarthy on NPR's "Science Friday" →
literaryflack: Don’t miss Cormac McCarthy on NPR’s “Science Friday” tomorrow (4/8, 3-4pm ET) on Connecting Science and Art.  Science and art often seem to develop in separate silos, but many thinkers are inspired by both. Novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art and Herzog’s new film on the earliest known cave...
Apr 7th
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“The realization that you have something of value to contribute to the greater...”
– Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library | The Awl (via nickdouglas)
Apr 5th
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Sam Anderson on The Pale King →
I am not reading any reviews of The Pale King until I’m finished, but Sam Anderson—one of the better book critics that exists—wrote the one I’ll read first.
Apr 5th
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thessaly: “I would go to the bookstore and just keep reminding myself of how many people have written novels. I thought, ‘Well, I’m not dumber than most people. I must be able to do this if I just persevere.’” — David Bezmozgis on writing a novel.  He was here at this bookstore last night for The Free World—bunch of signed copies floating (not literally floating) around the...
Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are...”
– John Cheever, from The Journals. Quoted by Geoff Dyer in his essay on The Journals in Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. (Did you hear that he—Geoff, not John—is reading here May 9th, talking with Sam Lipsyte?)
Apr 4th
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March 2011
43 posts
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Why is there no Norton Anthology of Paperwork? →
Mar 29th
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Mar 28th
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Today in passive aggressive faxes
MOST Doctors agree… Clean Air FREE of Virus & Bacteria is beneficial to everyone! I’m just Curious How Long you are going to live with Contaminated Disease Infested AIR
Mar 27th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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