February 2012
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Bill Loehfelm: Rue the Day: My Favorite Coffee... →
Ode to a coffeeshop:
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In 1998, I moved into a small studio apartment here in the Garden District. The place had its merits: hardwood floor, high ceiling, fireplace with a big mantle and mirror. And it was cheap. On the flip side, I had to stoop to shower because the tub was under the stairs, and there wasn’t a kitchen to speak of. It was tight - I slept with my headboard against...
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“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither...”
– This would be the Raymond Chandler quote that inspired the new clothing line for Freshjive. Not joking.
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“Some ghosts were mute, and other ghosts murmured to keep themselves company....”
– Threats by Amelia Gray (via 57thstreetbooks)
(Published today!)
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PULPHEAD NOTES: An Event with Geoff Dyer in New... →
New Yorkers: This will be a very, very memorable literary event.
johnjeremiahsullivan:
On Friday March 9th, John Jeremiah Sullivan and Geoff Dyer will be in conversation at 192 Books. Here’s Dyer from a recent interview in Bookforum:
Failure is quite interesting, and it’s something I have a certain amount of experience with. I wasn’t a failure in the way lots of people are failures—I could...
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HOBART 13 bonus: Amelia Gray & Jac Jemc →
Seconded! Thirded too, why not.
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Re-Tumbling because… Amelia’s THREATS is out today!!
Jac Jemc: I know you won the FC2 contest, but any other contest wins? Like a radio call-in contest or funny dance contest on spring break?
Amelia Gray: A couple summers ago I won a raffle at a summer movie series and I won $100 in grocery money! I blew it all on wine and candy. I always enter...
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“Before my son, Lev’s, 6th birthday, we asked him if he’d like us to do anything...”
– From “A Mustache for My Son” by Etgar Keret, in The New York Times
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Something out of Something: Only One Week Left... →
If you’re creative. And you like winning.
somethingoutofsomething:
Four months ago, BOMB magazine and FSG Originals announced the Something out of Something art and design contest. And now we’re down to the final seven days. We’re looking for the best in any kind of visual art inspired by or incorporating the work of Etgar Keret. At stake?
$500
A chance to have your work appear in an...
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“Spinoza wrote his Ethics in Latin, a language nobody spoke anymore, using a...”
– Leonard Michaels, “Writing About Myself”
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J. K. Rowling's writing a novel for adults.... →
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If you can spare $14K, get thee to eBay and bid on... →
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“…you have to keep on trying to do. You have to be willing to realize that what...”
– Zadie Smith, November 22, 2010 (via livefromthenypl)
I love that last line.
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Cormac McCarthy Hates Semicolons
…And other revelations from the recent news of his new copy editing gig. He’s pretty harsh about exclamation points, too:
The novelist’s corrections appear to be more literary than scientific. In addition to suggested some rephrasing, Mr. Krauss, said, Mr. McCarthy “made me promise he could excise all exclamation points and semicolons, both of which he said have no place in...
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Jonathan Franzen talks about Edith Wharton and the...
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1970s New York as Innovation Mecca
Brain Pickings frames Will Hermes’ book in terms that would make Steven Johnson smile:
Though historically fascinating and an absolute treat for music geeks and New York lovers alike, Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever is at its heart about creative entrepreneurship, about “people taking the lousy hands they’d been dealt and dreaming them...
