February 2010
48 posts
“If you want to buy Hilary Mantel’s popular, prizewinning “Wolf...”
– Jacket Copy
January 2010
24 posts
“The Google Book Settlement is attempting to clinch a deal behind closed doors on...”
– Julia and Malcolm Wright, daughter and grandson of author Richard Wright
NYT: Richard Wright’s Estate Calls Google Book Settlement ‘Grievously Flawed’
“The settlement would make this corporate bully the greatest publishing force in...”
– Estate of Richard Wright press release regarding Google Books settlement
“What could stars be but something else no longer there, // some echoing light...”
– from ‘ECHOES’ by Robert Creeley; Windows, pg. 110
too tight
Some days I like pulling on a freshly laundered pair of bluejeans, snug and fitted in a way they won’t be in another two days when I’m constantly tugging at the waist or need a belt. Today is definitely not one of those days.
on the subject of Palestinians protesting...
mariangoes:
It is hard to imagine what “patience” looks like under those circumstances - when someone enters your home with a weapon; when you are outnumbered in your own home; when you are powerless to protect your children from being interrogated; when accusing questions and threats assail you, your mind in a fog, deprived of sleep. It must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to...
“But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating....”
– Dear Pat Robertson…Best, Satan
Marquez, Faulkner, Clinton, Styron and Fuentes
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was discussing his favorite writer, William Faulkner, with Bill Clinton at a dinner in the home of William Styron in 1995. Carlos Fuentes was also present and mentioned his favorite book was also Faulkner. Bill Clinton then stood up and recited some of The Sound and the Fury.
It sounds like a joke, but it’s not. Edith Grossman shares this gem in her forthcoming...
“Church groups are singing throughout the city all through the night in prayer....”
– Haiti Earthquake, 1st Night
Troy Livesay
“Maybe it’s a Texas thing, or maybe it’s a Southern thing, or maybe there’s more...”
– The Art of Memoir No. 1 by Mary Karr
The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist, “A World of Hits”, Nov. 26, 2009
Via Marco Arment
(via fuckyeahreading and harmless balderdash)
“Desta vez, por razões de distância e também de saúde, não poderei estar...”
– http://caderno.josesaramago.org/2009/12/09/sobre-maria-joao-pires/
