Under the category “read this blogpost if you want to know about an author you might not have heard of” and “reasons why litmags should continue to exist” add the following:
That television so eagerly borrows from contemporary fiction isn’t cause for panic – these shows could redirect viewers to their source material and recruit a whole new legion of readers that their authors might never have wooed.
I’m in love with an ugly woman
Personally, I love the way she can baffle and beguile at a glance, the way she can completely change my perspective on a dime. It’s called character, and she’s got it.
Libraries: the future is underground
Meet the Mansueto Library, the University of “greedy-for-books” Chicago’s new window-dome reading room and underground book storage facility.
Failure, it seems, in literature and in life, is inevitable. The trouble is not actually the actual act of failing – the trouble is when you hitch your wagon solely onto the star of success.
Arundhati Roy talks “Walking with the Comrades”
“The dilemma for the writer, I think, is how to spend your life honing your individual voice and then, at times like this, to declare it from the heart of a crowd. That tension, that balance, is something I think about quite often.”
Anselm Keifer Won’t Paint Cows on his Nuclear Reactor
“This nuclear power station is so fantastic, wonderful. It is my Pantheon.”
A Misanthrope at the Revolution
#occupyDC vs. #occupywallstreet
Would Sam Johnson Blendr a Biddy?
Why preserve arcane words or grammar rules that no one follows in speech anyway? Society would not cease to function without good prose. Sugar would be no less sweet; the packaging it comes in, no less branded.