March 2010
11 posts
“i am a completely horizontal author. i can’t think unless i am lying down,...”
– truman capote describes his writing habits. the interview following capote’s in the paris review interviews, I is with hemingway and he reveals that he only writes while standing up.
“i have to add up all numbers: there are some people i never telephone because...”
– truman capote on his personal quirks, the paris review interviews, I.
February 2010
16 posts
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“We have giants or nothing. There are no mediocre writers. It is like the Easter...”
– John Banville on the anxiety of influence as an Irish writer.
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Colum McCann and John Banville at the 92Y.
Last night I attended the John Banville and Colum McCann reading at the 92nd St Y. Banville kicked things off by reading from his latest novel, The Infinities. This was my first exposure to Banville’s writing and the passage he selected to read was both lyrical and hypnotic but maybe not the wisest selection for reading aloud to an audience. I typically do not have a problem staying engaged...
“It’s my story, and at some point, it does need to be told. That point is...”
– salman rushdie discussing future plans for a book about the ten years he spent in hiding after the satanic verses resulted in a fatwa against his life.
Watchtiffany:
When I shoot an event, before I start deleting and editing, I like to take all the photos and flip through them quickly to see the event as a whole. I recently started making videos of it. So here is Tumblr Reads at Housing Works.
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tumblr reads piece: interloper
I bought a book explaining the science of memory and now can’t remember where I put it. I figured that if traces of you are going to stick with me like undigested gum, clinging to my entrails for eight years, I would like to intellectualize the hows and whys. I know that you’re squatting in my hippocampus. Interloper, you will sit heavy on me until my ribcage cracks or something else gives.
There...
“i did not just cry. i WEPT.”
– 41 year old male coworker in response to me teasing him for crying while reading the time traveler’s wife.
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covert ops.
when i was eight or nine my dad clipped a desk lamp to the side of my bed for nighttime reading. after catching me reading when i was supposed to be sound asleep a few times, my parents started to patrol the hallway to make sure that i wasn’t still up and buried in a book. i became a pro at detecting the first signs of movement on the other side of the house—my ears would perk up at...
92y:
Jamaica Kincaid at the 92Y Poetry Center in...
“when you were six you thought mistress meant to put your shoes on the wrong...”
– lorrie moore, self-help.
“that is what is wrong with cold people. not that they have ice in their...”
– lorrie moore, self-help.
late to the lorrie moore party.
i started reading self-help a few nights ago and oh my word i am in love.