November 2010
17 posts
“YOU WOULD READ A BOOK TWICE? if the book is that good, a movie will be coming...”
– john, who sits next to me at work.
“for a short time she mourned him, believing he had anchored her, had kept her...”
– lorrie moore, like life.
zaqa asked: You post great things. Reading your blog always makes me smile, and I figured I'd let you know. :)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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“in your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don’t...”
– andre aciman, call me by your name.
“There’s nothing more beautiful in the material world than the book.”
– Patti Smith, in her National Book Award acceptance speech. (via mcnallyjackson)
carey mulligan cast as daisy buchanan in baz... →
thank you gods of hollywood for answering my “please not blake lively” prayers.
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jonathan franzen and lorrie moore @ 92Y.
lorrie moore was exactly as expected—warm, with a seductive and subtle wit. jonathan franzen on the other hand was much more animated and effusive than i had painted him in my mind.
what a great night at the 92y. i wanted to hear more about franzen’s unexpected birdwatching hobby that was a product of writing freedom.
moore’s reply to the audience question about how writers...
“you want to do something new when you’re writing a novel. i mean,...”
– jonathan franzen.
“few media have a longer lead cycle than the novel.”
– jonathan franzen @ the 92y regarding the challenges of writing about contemporary culture and events in america.
“The ending changes everything that came before it.”
– Edan Lepucki, If You’re Not Yet Like Me (via fwriction)
“…on high heels she looked like a cat stuck up a tree, in trouble, out of...”
– philip roth, portnoy’s complaint. such a perfect image.
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fiction based on truths.
all writers mine the world around them to varying degrees—whether the borrowed details are broad strokes, skeletal, or true to life with names tactfully changed. i hate it when readers of my writing assume that all detail has been lifted from my own experience, but inspiration has to come from somewhere. i’ve culled plenty of events from my own life and those of people i know, blending...