Plumtree's Potted Meat: Archive

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The Apple Trees at Olema

I’d always like Robert Hass in the way most writerly students like a myriad of authors. You know the feeling I’m describing: you’ve heard of these poets, these novelists, maybe run across some excerpts of their work online or in an anthology and always intend to read more but never quite hop over the hurdle of general authorial acquaintance into real, immersive reading of their...

Dec 30th

Dec 29th

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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”

– Ira Glass (via hyperallergic)

Dec 28th

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The Big C

I follow some blogs that write eloquently critically about television shows and screenwriting* in ways I can’t: it’s an analytical vocabulary in which I’m lacking. But the television-watching exploit I’ve devoted myself to this break has been watching Season 1 of The Big C and, because I finished a few hours ago and, because I haven’t seriously tumbled in a while,...

Dec 27th

Dec 25th

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Dec 24th

holiday tumbling is hard

I made a long-ass emo-raging list and then I decided to just go read more Deborah Eisenberg.

Dec 23rd

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“A writer should never write about the extraordinary. That is for the journalist.”

– James Joyce (via theeschatoncourts)

Dec 20th

Perfection

Today I spent the day with Matthea Harvey. Today was literally the best day I’ve ever had at college. More to come.

Dec 8th

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“It was you who slid your hand down down inside my trousers and pulled my shirt...”

– James Joyce to Nora, one-hundred and one years ago today.

Dec 3rd

mashingup: “You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.” - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Dec 3rd

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