January 2011
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1Q84 for release in October...
fuckyeahharukimurakami:
Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 due out in English in October… in a single 1,000 page volume.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/31/haruki-murakami-1q84-english-october
Ho-lee shit.
“Morning is my favorite time of day. It’s like everything’s starting out fresh...”
– Norwegian Wood (via andrewharlow)
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“Men may profess their “love” of sports, but that love must always be cast and...”
– David Foster Wallace, Federer as Religious Experience (via gangofdolls)
“[And she, with a sad smile—which was already a smile of surrender to the...”
– Eyes of a Blue Dog (short story), by Gabriel García Márquez (via the-final-sentence)
“The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the...”
– David Foster Wallace (via thehansencollection)
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Hometown Graffiti →
Birmingham, Alabama from the Highland Avenue overpass on I-59
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“Retaking the reins and returning to their indie roots, Cake delivers after the...”
– Paste reviews Showroom of Compassion
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“Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear? Ever he would wander,...”
– Ulysses, James Joyce (via space-beard)
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“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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Academic Orgasm
This post must begin with a special thanks to Sam for exposing me to this. That said, I’ve gotten my proposal for a comparative study between the short fiction of David Foster Wallace and Clarice Lispector approved. Lookout academia, guess who’s about to prove: (1) Wood misread Zadie Smith, DFW, DeLillo et al, but, more importantly, (2) the party’s been raging in Brazil since...
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“It’s not even a matter of taste, it’s a matter of You Suck.”
– Casey Boersma, to those who ‘don’t like’ the fiction of Clarice Lispector.
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Draft 1/!
A surprisingly easy seven hours have passed and I’ve got 3,789 words to show for it. Getting the first lottery time for this fiction workshop was rough (3 days for a short story?) but at least I have something to turn in now. And time to edit before 6pm deadline tomorrow. And time to go out tonight.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Cicero (via starsmending) (via weissewiese, monocledgirl-deactivated2010052)
New (great) CAKE, New Decemberists, Upcoming Wye...
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“Even in 2000 AD, who among us is so cynical that he doesn’t have some good old...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Up, Simba”“ (via fopitlikeitshot)
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“…He is of an age
when the thought of winter is a sexual thought,
the...”
– Robert Hass, from “Snowy Egret”
“I promise to make you so alive that the fall of dust on furniture will deafen...”
– Nina Cassian, The New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
Futurism II
If you ever get worried about your ability to find a job as insert obscure and seemingly worthless and/or impractical undergraduate major here, then I recommend: USAJOBS.GOV. Seriously, I just typed in “writing” for the search condition and yielded 3286 results. 3286! One of which was a writer/editor position in the Library of Congress!
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“And here I am walking the eternal earth.
Tiny, leaning on a stick.
I pass a...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, from “It Was Winter”
“I had a dream about you. We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets...”
– Richard Siken (via imustbegoing)
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf (via shathappens)