March 2012
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rebeccatotman asked: I received the advanced copy of People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry in the mail on Thursday or Friday last week. I haven't been able to put it down (which is a bit of a problem because I'm unbelievably busy right now.) My solution- finish it as soon as possible! It's so so so riveting and well executed and grand and dark, oh, so dark. I can't get enough. Thank...
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“He was, I thought, one of the most authentically Irish-seeming guys I’d ever...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan, “My Debt to Ireland,” New York Times Magazine
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Since it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I...
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“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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“Now I’m neither a doctor nor an esteemed literary critic, but it seems that...”
– Chris Arnold on the healthy state of the literary novel, in The Millions.
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"The period when my sister was discovering... →
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Tim O'Reilly's Advice: Read Rilke
During his SXSW Interactive talk, Andrew Mcafee asked Tim O’Reilly for his advice to young innovators. O’Reilly quoted the last stanza of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, reprinted below.
“The Man Watching” by Rainer Maria Rilke
I can tell by the way the trees beat, after so many dull days, on my worried windowpanes that a storm is coming, and I hear the far-off fields...
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Marilynne Robinson stopped by NPR’s Weekend...
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“I don’t like categories like religious and not religious. As soon as religion...”
– Marilynne Robinson, in an interview with The Paris Review
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“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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The Programmer Who Abandoned Technology to Write a...
The story of how Ellen Ullman came to write By Blood:
Before she was an author, Ellen Ullman worked in the late 1970s as a programmer during the formative years of Silicon Valley, writing code to help insurance companies and their agents communicate electronically. This may seem like a surprising move for someone who graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English, but it has led to a...
