December 2008
34 posts
“what the hell are you getting so upset about?” he asked her bewilderedly...”
– joseph heller, catch-22.
“you know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we...”
– joseph heller, catch-22.
“her allure stemmed from her accessibility; like Mt. Everest, she was there, and...”
– joseph heller, catch-22.
my new nerdy gifts:
365 day scrabble calendar for my desk at work
“after dark” by murakami
“american wife” by curtis sittenfeld
“2666” (YAY!!) by roberto bolano
“the wind-up bird chronicles” by murakami
50 dollar barnes and noble gift card from my boss
you never know what you'll find in a book →
“some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have...”
– joseph heller, catch-22.
to all you last minute shoppers...
i have a personal tradition of gifting everyone i know a present AND a book i want them to read. if you haven’t finished up your shopping, books make a great last minute gift :) email me if you need suggestions.
“maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if...”
– joseph heller, catch-22
wake up, little susie →
Susan Sontag started keeping a journal at the age of 12; her first entry concerned the rotting corpse of a dog. Over the course of her life she remained such a devoted self-documenter that, when she died, she left nearly 100 full notebooks filed neatly in a closet. It was unclear whether she wanted them published. (She whispered to her son, cryptically, dramatically, during her final illness: “You...
“what is of interest is what our minds retain, what our lives have given to the...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
“i felt guilty. i was afraid.”
“afraid of what, honey?”
...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
what's with all the jonathan safran foer-phobia? →
the curated bookshelf →
nyc neighborhood bookshop guide
what's shakespeare to us, and we to him? plenty. →
Shakespeare’s work, in her opinion, is so constantly mutable that it always exists in the present, whatever that present might be. The ways in which Shakespeare is interpreted in different eras say as much about those time periods as they do about the writing itself.—janet maslin
breaking news: james frey is likeable →
García Márquez is writing new novel, says friend ... →
(via a-thinker)
“marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over,...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
“it was his misfortune to see through everything. he had not believed in god...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
“she was not the one to take him on and get him out from under, he was too sad...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
austenbook →
wordplay:
Inspired by the Hamlet facebook feed, a Pride and Prejudice facebook feed. “Elizabeth Bennet is not handsome enough to tempt a certain gentleman. Ha!” indeed.
“it was nice to have yourself known by a man; it was getting to be known that was...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
“but how much of love, when you thought about it, was not of the other but of...”
– john updike, the witches of eastwick.
Merriam-Webster's word of 2008 is: Bailout. →
(via counterforce)