“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” - P.J. O’Rourke
I’m still finishing this book, but I know it’s a perfect gift for any scifi fan and/or cosmology fan.
My advice for aspiring writers is to go to New York,” Mr. Kirn said. “And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.
A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan - NYTimes.com
Book critic Dwight Garner takes a tour around literary Manhattan.
Source: The New York Times
Yes, READ! All the cool kids are doing it.
You get to eat and fuck and read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’
You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming.
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(via Flavorwire » Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis Read from ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’)
“Feel it, baby Christian”…. what?
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(via Get Lost in London’s 250,000-Book Maze - Education - GOOD)
Literally get lost in a good book… or a couple thousand of them in this book maze.
Source: GOOD
Favorite Things: Blood, Bones & Butter
I still haven’t finished Gabrielle Hamilton’s book yet, but I’m so in love with it right now. Besotted, really. I love how honest, quiet, fair, and thoughtful she is about her experiences. I love how she describes every nook and cranny of her life education. It’s probably the cold glow…
I love this book. I picked it up at a really interesting point in my life — I just graduated and was no longer dating my longtime chef boyfriend. I was interested in how a woman created such an interesting life for herself while mine was just beginning. Also, I was still hung up on my ex-Chef-boyfriend, so this book was kind of a secret indulgence.
Despite the super personal confession above, I’d love to have a coffee or a couple of whiskey sours with Gabrielle Hamilton.
How do you sell more books? Make them disappear.
Forget free ebook downloads of new authors, here’s an intriguing way to get people to read your story in print: Hurry the hell up. You have about two months to read Eterna Cadencia’s anthology of new authors before the ink it’s printed with disappears. (Via The Inquisitr and Draftfcb/Buenos Aires.)
Hamlet the Mini Pig - Goes Down the Stairs (by PiggyGirl2010)
my god, to have a teacup pig…. and to name him Wilbur…. will be my life’s challenge.
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I don’t write for children. I write — and somebody says, ‘That’s for children!’
Grim Colberty Tales – Maurice Sendak, wryly witty as ever, in his final interview, with none other than Stephen Colbert.
(via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
