October 2009
18 posts
capitalist with a $ →
adam kirsch explores the relevance of ayn rand’s atlas shrugged in the obama era.
“the colleague was one of those husbands and fathers who had been among the first...”
– alice munro, hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage.
“future absence i accepted—it was just that i had no idea, till mike...”
– alice munro, hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage.
Serving Literature by the Tweet →
The founders of Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, seek nothing less than to revitalize the short story in the age of the short attention span. To do so, they allow readers to enjoy the magazine any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook. YouTube videos feature collaborations among their writers and visual artists and...
“if you read a novel in more than two weeks you don’t read the novel...”
– philip roth, in this interview with the daily beast.
“Five years of my life and the dream that I had of myself, all down the tubes...”
– junot diaz
junot diaz talks about what made him become a... →
a big thank you to ryan for sending me this article!
edith wharton always had paris →
“Like many of the characters in her novels, Edith Wharton made frequent use of concealment, reserve and deception in her own life.
So it was fitting that the leading American female writer of the early 20th century experienced her first and most likely only passionate love affair in the city of Paris, far removed from her homes in New York and New England.”—Elaine Sciolino
“writing is a solitary business. it takes over your life. in some sense, a writer...”
– paul auster, ghosts.
how iago explains the world →
using the duplicitous othello character as a lens for contemporary issues.
“using aimless motion as a technique of reversal, on his best days he could bring...”
– paul auster, city of glass.
“adam’s one task in the garden had been to invent language, to give each...”
– paul auster, city of glass.
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“that’s what i love about reading: one tiny thing will lead you onto...”
– mary ann shaffer and annie barrows, the guernsey literary and potato peel society.