December 2009
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“What he left here is the sound of a life that pushed against its constraints, as...”
– Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt, who passed away on Christmas Day. Hersh has set up a donation site to help Chesnutt’s family deal with the musician’s outstanding medical bills.
“People’s complaints about poetic novels are that the writing is lush,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, on being called a “poetic novelist”.
“Like many people concerned about “humanity,” he was contemptuous of actual...”
– Christopher Caldwell reviews a new biography of Arthur Koestler, who, it seems, had a brilliant mind but was a rather awful person.
“Books are notes from the field, bound and domesticated, life brought into narrow...”
– Joshua Ferris, writing against culling your book collection. (via gregbrown)
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I just had to explain to someone that searching...
“Annie Dillard’s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind...”
– - Marilynne Robinson
So far I’ve only read Dillard’s non-fiction. This needs to be remedied immediately.
Little Housing Crisis on the Prairie →
From McSweeney’s.
Florence + The Machine ~ Cosmic Love (Live and...
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The Drums ~ Let’s Go Surfing
“In other nations, politicians are not expected to be well-read or even...”
– The New Statesman explores how Sarkozy’s attitude towards literature has helped fuel the controversy over the possibility of Camus being reburied in the Pantheon, resting place of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hugo.
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“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was...”
– Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Pete Yorn ~ Do They Know it’s Christmas?
In my dream last night the mall Santa was offering “Christmas GPOYWs”. I MAY NEED TO USE THE INTERNET LESS.
“The women poets I know are beginning to understand feminism as a sly term that...”
– Eileen Myles, via the Poetry Foundation
I love this description of feminism - Myles describes it not as a rigid set of rules but as a “moving abstract”, a constantly evolving way of looking at and interacting with the world.
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I’m like the Marlo Stanfield of gift wrapping. No planning ahead, just wrapping presents like there’s no tomorrow.
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brb, GIFT WRAPPING.
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Christmas Shopping Done!
Operation “don’t get papercuts” aka wrapping presents to commence tonight.
“In the middle of December
to start over
to assume again
an order
at the...”
– Nate Klug, Advent
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Question Time.
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Long Islanders have started using FourSquare
So far I’ve seen Twitter updates telling me people are at an outlet mall and Target. I’m sure Applebees and the Olive Garden are on deck.
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“But people hear music in all kinds of different ways. Some people experience...”
– Tom Waits, interviewed in The Globe and Mail
happycap:
Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself A Merry...
“As cons go, Woods’s fraudulent image as an immaculate exemplar of superhuman...”
– Frank Rich, in the NY Times
