This week, we've found some great articles and resources all revolving around the subject of BOOKS! 1. Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro have an interesting discussion on genre. 2. Adam Gopnik talks about what it really means for us when yet another book store closes its doors. 3. It is now common practice for Western books to be … Continue reading All About Books
Tag: Fiction
Meditation on Ruin
by Jay Hopler It’s not the lost lover that brings us to ruin, or the barroom brawl, or the con game gone bad, or the beating Taken in the alleyway. But the lost car keys, The broken shoelace, The overcharge at the gas pump Which we broach without comment — these are the things that eat … Continue reading Meditation on Ruin
Why can’t we read anymore?
"Most nights last year, I got into bed with a book — paper or e — and started. Reading. Read. Ing. One word after the next. A sentence. Two sentences. Maybe three. And then … I needed just a little something else. Something to tide me over. Something to scratch that little itch at the back of my mind— just … Continue reading Why can’t we read anymore?
Kurt Vonnegut, Quote of the Day
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. ” Kurt Vonnegut, … Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut, Quote of the Day
Time for some Gifs.
I love these sweet little moments from it's no biggie.
A Moment with Jack Kerouac…
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac
Good Reads of the Week
Here's a collection of great recently published reads. A writer and avid reader, Dallas Taylor noticed a bias in the books he was reading – they were all written by dudes. So he challenged himself to spend a year reading only books by women. His reflections on this experience are interesting and will make you … Continue reading Good Reads of the Week
Eight Incredible Writers Residencies
Residencies are the ultimate dream for a writer. To spend weeks, sometimes months, away from society and technology to focus solely on the work - that's the stuff of fantasy. Given time to reflect, decompress, be alone with your thoughts, and connect to nature, what could you accomplish? Here are 8 of the most dreamy retreats … Continue reading Eight Incredible Writers Residencies
QOTD
“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.” … Continue reading QOTD
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