February 2012
10 posts
“I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.”
– Xenocrates, c. 350 BC
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via thatluciegirl)
January 2012
4 posts
December 2011
21 posts
What did I read this year? Well, I read my e-mail, I read the backs of cereal boxes, I read the ads on the subway; I read the New York Times quite a lot (though still not enough to feel that I was staying abreast of world affairs); I read a number of literary periodicals (each one stuffed with reviews of books that I will never read); and I read the jacket copy of countless books during my...
“There is no greater threat to the American way of life than the independent...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via chrismohney)
The Books They Gave Me: Capote. →
thebookstheygaveme:
Nessa and I bonded during our junior year of high school over books (we couldn’t keep our noses out of them) and shared dislike of our boring rest-stop of a town (a dozen gas stations and fast food joints split in two by a rushing freeway). Every day on the bus we’d talk about the books we…
“Can a writer’s prose be too fine, too composed? In an age where language seems...”
– Alex Ross’s Year In Reading (via millionsmillions)
“Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I...”
– Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian. (via robotnic)
“We think of those guys as being so dashed-off, but can you imagine Kerouac as a...”
– Lorin Stein at Park & Bond (via robotnic)
“Every age gets the rich people it deserves. In contemporary India, the new rich...”
– Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned
November 2011
13 posts
“Libraries are always paradoxical: they are as personal as the collector, and at...”
– James Wood, ‘Shelf Life’, The New Yorker
“When I looked over at Franzen, it seemed to me that he did not really want to be...”
– Elif Batuman: Life after a bestseller, The Guardian
“Travel and reading allowed him to collect a frail library of experience. Each...”
– James Wood, ‘Shelf Life’, The New Yorker
October 2011
2 posts
