I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
— Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) on Los Angeles (via caughtupinsanity)(via chainchewinggum) (via peterwknox)

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Read in 2009
Jose Saramago / Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Thomas Mann / The Magic Mountain
Mikhail Bulgakov / The Master and Margarita
Cormac McCarthy / The Crossing
Graham Greene / The Power and the Glory
Virginia Woolf / Mrs. Dalloway
Bill Davis / Mass Appeal
Chris Adrian / A Better Angel
Nam Le / The Boat
William Gass / Tests of Time
Haruki Murakami / Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Colson Whitehead / Sag Harbor
Karen Russell / St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Virginia Woolf / Orlando
Walker Percy / The Moviegoer
Michael Ondaatje / In The Skin of A Lion
Nicole Krauss / Man Walks Into a Room
James Joyce / Ulysses
Steig Larsson / Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Nicholas Christopher / A Trip to the Stars
Randall Jarrell / No Other Book
William Gass / Habitations of the Word
Thomas Pynchon / Inherent Vice
Lorrie Moore / Self Help
Clarice Lispector / Near to the Wild Heart
Italo Calvino / If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
Aleksander Hemon / The Lazarus Project
Steig Larsson / The Girl Who Played With Fire
Sarah Hall / How to Paint a Dead Man
Dave Eggers / Zeitoun
I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
— Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) on Los Angeles (via caughtupinsanity)(via chainchewinggum) (via peterwknox)
caughtupinsanity: chainchewinggum : peterwknox) funny cos i noticed the signs telling me NO today and thought wha?!? but...
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To be completely honest, I was nervous when I told my parents about my plan to quit my job and go back to school. They’ve always been completely supportive, but honestly, quitting a stable job in...
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