Jan 26

The Winter Edition of the Georgia Review contains 23 pages of Gainesville resident Harry Crews' writing

derasso:

Via Maud!

Plagued by a number of ailments in recent years, he continues to plug away at the keyboard, when his health allows.

“The best book I got is half finished,” Crews said recently. “It’s called ‘The Wrong Affair,’ and, it’s a kick-a— book.”

Crews said he hopes to spend 2012 doing what he’s devoted his life to: writing.

“I don’t know when I’m going to stop,” he said. “I guess when I die.”

You can read an excerpt of his memoir at the Georgia Review website.

Source: derasso

Jan 18
doublefifths:

Vote no on SOPA and PIPA

doublefifths:

Vote no on SOPA and PIPA

Source: doublefifths

Jan 07

W. W. Norton: The Obligation to Be Happy

wwnorton:

It is more onerous
than the rites of beauty
or housework, harder than love.
But you expect it of me casually,
the way you expect the sun
to come up, not in spite of rain
or clouds but because of them.

And so I smile, as if my own fidelity
to sadness were a hidden vice—
that downward tug…

Source: wwnorton

Nov 09
housingworksbookstore:

Updated list of readers below for tomorrow’s reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street. The reading is free and open to all; we’ll have portions of the text available for walk-up readers. Attendees are encouraged to bring donations for OWS; according to Haywood Carey of our panel on Monday, duct tape and blankets are currently needed.
Nitsuh Abebe, New York magazine
Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season
Amanda Bullock, your Housing Works blogger
Ryan Chapman, FSG
Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others
Allison Devers, Writers’ Houses
Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
Rachel Fershleiser, Bookish
Molly Fischer, journalist
David Goodwillie, American Subversive
Michele Hardesty, People’s Library
Michelle Legro, editor, Lapham’s Quarterly
Sam MacLaughlin, McNally Jackson Books
Maureen Miller, editor, Rap Genius
Eileen Myles, Inferno
Maud Newton, “When the Flock Changed”
Tom Roberge, New Directions
Sarah Sarai
Erich Strom
Brendan Sullivan, Text, Drugs, & Rock ‘N’ Roll
Adam Wilson, Flatscreen
James Yeh, editor, Gigantic
Daniel Zilio
Thank  you to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, McNally Jackson Books, and Justin  Taylor for organizing; and to the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street  and to Melville House, publisher of the Art of the Novella edition of Bartleby, the Scrivener, for their support.

housingworksbookstore:

Updated list of readers below for tomorrow’s reading of Bartleby, the Scrivener at the public atrium at 60 Wall Street. The reading is free and open to all; we’ll have portions of the text available for walk-up readers. Attendees are encouraged to bring donations for OWS; according to Haywood Carey of our panel on Monday, duct tape and blankets are currently needed.

  • Nitsuh Abebe, New York magazine
  • Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season
  • Amanda Bullock, your Housing Works blogger
  • Ryan Chapman, FSG
  • Joshua Cohen, A Heaven of Others
  • Allison Devers, Writers’ Houses
  • Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
  • Rachel Fershleiser, Bookish
  • Molly Fischer, journalist
  • David Goodwillie, American Subversive
  • Michele Hardesty, People’s Library
  • Michelle Legro, editor, Lapham’s Quarterly
  • Sam MacLaughlin, McNally Jackson Books
  • Maureen Miller, editor, Rap Genius
  • Eileen Myles, Inferno
  • Maud Newton, “When the Flock Changed”
  • Tom Roberge, New Directions
  • Sarah Sarai
  • Erich Strom
  • Brendan Sullivan, Text, Drugs, & Rock ‘N’ Roll
  • Adam Wilson, Flatscreen
  • James Yeh, editor, Gigantic
  • Daniel Zilio

Thank you to Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, McNally Jackson Books, and Justin Taylor for organizing; and to the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street and to Melville House, publisher of the Art of the Novella edition of Bartleby, the Scrivener, for their support.

Oct 31
michellelegro:

A is for Andrea, whose costume was awesome. 
rachelfershleiser:

The ridiculously talented Andrea Sparacio has created the literary Halloween costume of the year. I am in love!


Great homage to Gorey, whose characters were always so incredibly well turned-out.
Previously: his six cats (and his one-room apartment); his fur coats (and his disavowal thereof); giving The Gashlycrumb Tinies to your eleven-year-old; and Earbrass, LTD: writers in search of reassignment.

michellelegro:

A is for Andrea, whose costume was awesome. 

rachelfershleiser:

The ridiculously talented Andrea Sparacio has created the literary Halloween costume of the year. I am in love!

Great homage to Gorey, whose characters were always so incredibly well turned-out.

Previously: his six cats (and his one-room apartment); his fur coats (and his disavowal thereof); giving The Gashlycrumb Tinies to your eleven-year-old; and Earbrass, LTD: writers in search of reassignment.

Source: facebook.com

Oct 27
Slang talk gets exciting when people start arguing—not so much in the “we don’t use wack slang in Brooklyn” vein, but smack-talking of the “Silence i dnt even use words like ‘green’.. I dnt do that memphis slang. DETROIT BITCH yeeaa” variety.

Local Twitter Slang, And All That Jawn | The Awl

So, um, Maud be like my jawn, yo? Am I doing this right?

Source: The Awl

Oct 02
Eating rattlesnake, Harry Crews-style, for the New York Times Magazine. Wish I’d gotten a photo of derasso’s pie.

Eating rattlesnake, Harry Crews-style, for the New York Times Magazine. Wish I’d gotten a photo of derasso’s pie.

Aug 19

Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace | Maud Newton

In the weekend’s New York Times Magazine, my Riff on the rhetorical gambits of David Foster Wallace and the Internet.

skibinskipedia:

Qualifications are necessary sometimes. Anticipating and defusing opposing arguments has been a vital rhetorical strategy since at least the days of Aristotle. Satire and ridicule, when done well, are high art. But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.

<3 U, Maud Newton.

Jul 17
derasso:

Why not be a writer?
[Via]

derasso:

Why not be a writer?

[Via]

Source: derasso

Fabulous new tray for drinking and snacking on the terrace has a coyote, just like the old See and Say. Thanks, D.E. Rasso/Lovely Jetsam!

Fabulous new tray for drinking and snacking on the terrace has a coyote, just like the old See and Say. Thanks, D.E. Rasso/Lovely Jetsam!

Jul 15

opal and the idiot: That's Sic

oati:

From a list of words included in the fourteen-page copy-editing style guide for Nicholson Baker’s novel House of Holes, out this month from Simon & Schuster.

asswood
ball-hankie
beardwater
bonky
boobosity
boycone
brimmingness
britneys
cockbrisket
cockitude
crotchal
cuntatious
dickybird

Typically I tear through Nicholson Baker’s sexy books, but I’ve been reading this one in stages…

Source: oati

Jul 13
Joan Didion on psychiatric trends and diagnoses. (Screenshot taken from NY1, obviously.)

Joan Didion on psychiatric trends and diagnoses. (Screenshot taken from NY1, obviously.)

Jun 27
slaughterhouse90210:

“She was vengeance incarnate. She was a piece of something eternal and elemental. She would have made a brilliant banana-republic dictator or medieval religious despot.”
—Kate Christensen, The Astral

Most inspired pairing yet!
(I talk with Kate Christensen about The Astral&#8217;s furious wife/potential medieval religious despot, and other things, at The Awl today: Male Muses and Inner Dicks. A couple years ago Jenny Diski and I dished about Damages.)

slaughterhouse90210:

“She was vengeance incarnate. She was a piece of something eternal and elemental. She would have made a brilliant banana-republic dictator or medieval religious despot.”

—Kate Christensen, The Astral

Most inspired pairing yet!

(I talk with Kate Christensen about The Astral’s furious wife/potential medieval religious despot, and other things, at The Awl today: Male Muses and Inner Dicks. A couple years ago Jenny Diski and I dished about Damages.)

Jun 06
Laurie Anderson turns 64 today. &#8220;Being a somewhat dark person myself,&#8221; she once said, explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick, &#8220;I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat  you alive.&#8221; (photo via i12bent)

Laurie Anderson turns 64 today. “Being a somewhat dark person myself,” she once said, explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick, “I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive.” (photo via i12bent)

Source: i12bent

Jun 02

William Maxwell, at 90, pondering the past, old books, and the poetry of A.E. Housman:

I get my greatest pleasure from reading — mostly books I’ve read before, but they’re different because I’m different. Once you reach the age of 90 you’re standing in sort of a pivotal position with the past. You remember more, of course, but you also are detached from it, so that it’s as if you were reading a long Russian novel. You don’t … grieve over their mistakes, you think, oh, that’s what those characters did, and how interesting. And that’s how I think about the past. I wouldn’t change it if I could.

Maxwell’s correspondence with Eudora Welty — which I’ll be discussing next Friday night at the New School as part of a Granta event celebrating Welty — was published last month. See also Welty v. Maxwell on autobiography in fiction.

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