May 27, 2012
fuckyeahbookarts: “Best super villain plan ever.” All the books is always a good plan.

fuckyeahbookarts:

“Best super villain plan ever.”

All the books is always a good plan.

(Source: man-thing, via wbnamerica)

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(Notes: 10,255)
  
May 25, 2012
bbook: Could you talk a little more about the drinking? So many writers, even if they’re not alcoholics, drink so much. Probably not a whole lot more than any other group of professionals. You’d be surprised. Of course there’s a mythology that goes along with the drinking, but I was never into that. I was into the drinking itself. I suppose I began to drink heavily after I’d realized that the things I’d wanted most in life for myself and my writing, and my wife and children, were simply not going to happen. It’s strange. You never start out in life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar. And you were all those things? I was. I’m not any longer. Oh, I lie a little from time to time, like everyone else. The Art of Fiction No. 76, Raymond Carver

bbook:

Could you talk a little more about the drinking? So many writers, even if they’re not alcoholics, drink so much.

Probably not a whole lot more than any other group of professionals. You’d be surprised. Of course there’s a mythology that goes along with the drinking, but I was never into that. I was into the drinking itself. I suppose I began to drink heavily after I’d realized that the things I’d wanted most in life for myself and my writing, and my wife and children, were simply not going to happen. It’s strange. You never start out in life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

And you were all those things?

I was. I’m not any longer. Oh, I lie a little from time to time, like everyone else.

The Art of Fiction No. 76, Raymond Carver

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(Notes: 77)
  
May 25, 2012
Edwidge Danticat

“I’ve been able to read people who have never left their homes, and I’ve been able to read people who have wandered in different parts of the world. I think there are advantages to both. I think being close to the ground, observing a situation closely in the everyday allows you a certain perspective, but also being in between, you know, it’s what Julia Alvarez calls “writing on the hyphen.” And I’ve always thought, for me, because I’ve benefitted from it so much — being able to read people who write from this particular place, this in-between place — I think people like that deserve their own literature.” […]

(via fullstopmag)

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(Notes: 1)
  
May 24, 2012
Our handsome tote. Currently in stock at our Lexington & Brooklyn stores. They’ll be in again at Downtown tomorrow!

Our handsome tote. Currently in stock at our Lexington & Brooklyn stores. They’ll be in again at Downtown tomorrow!

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May 24, 2012

drawnblog:

Movie Simpsons is a growing collection of movie references made by your favourite yellow family.

Hello, new best thing.

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(Notes: 1,654)
  
Filed under: simpsons 
May 22, 2012
Then he told me that when he was fourteen years old and had his first job working for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he had come late to work each day for a week. His employer told him he was fired. Hammett said he nodded, walked to the door, and was called back by a puzzled man who said, “If you can give me your word it won’t happen again, you can keep the job.”  Hammett said, “Thank you, but I can’t do that.” After a silence the man said, “O.K., keep the job anyway.” Dash said that he didn’t know what was right about what he had done, but he did know that it would always be useful. An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir, Lillian Hellman

Then he told me that when he was fourteen years old and had his first job working for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he had come late to work each day for a week. His employer told him he was fired. Hammett said he nodded, walked to the door, and was called back by a puzzled man who said, “If you can give me your word it won’t happen again, you can keep the job.”  Hammett said, “Thank you, but I can’t do that.” After a silence the man said, “O.K., keep the job anyway.” Dash said that he didn’t know what was right about what he had done, but he did know that it would always be useful.

An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir, Lillian Hellman

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Filed under: Dashiell Hammett 
May 21, 2012
millionsmillions: The Toronto Star is re-releasing the columns Ernest Hemingway wrote for the paper in the 1920s! [Image via Syracuse University]

millionsmillions:

The Toronto Star is re-releasing the columns Ernest Hemingway wrote for the paper in the 1920s!

[Image via Syracuse University]

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(Notes: 72)
  
Filed under: hemingway 
May 20, 2012
sighswhispers: Baudrillard on New York, 1988. (Taken with instagram)

sighswhispers:

Baudrillard on New York, 1988. (Taken with instagram)

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(Notes: 2)
  
May 18, 2012
wwnorton: While working on the highly anticipated second edition of Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier: A Norton Critical Edition, an eagle-eyed and devilishly handsome Nortonian noticed that the author bore a striking resemblance to Brion James, who portrayed Leon Kowalski in the 1982 classic, Blade Runner. This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

wwnorton:

While working on the highly anticipated second edition of Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier: A Norton Critical Edition, an eagle-eyed and devilishly handsome Nortonian noticed that the author bore a striking resemblance to Brion James, who portrayed Leon Kowalski in the 1982 classic, Blade Runner.

This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

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(Notes: 11)
  
Filed under: fmf 
May 17, 2012

Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, Dies at 63. This bookstore basement is filled with glitter, sadness.

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