January 2012
9 posts
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thegirlandherbooks)
The Teens Are All Right: 2011's Top 5 YA Novels :... →
Nice to see that Divergent, one of the books some of my students are studying for our Dystopian fiction unit, made the list.
Flavorwire » The 25 Greatest Epigraphs in... →
housingworksbookstore:
Passage home? Never. — The Odyssey, Book 5, Homer (trans. Robert Fagles) (from Lit by Mary Karr)
Mary Karr will be here with Elizabeth Wurtzel and Alan Kaufman on Wednesday, January 18.
December 2011
6 posts
“The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
“When you buy a book, you establish a property right in it, just as you do in...”
– How to Read a Book, originally written by Mortimer Adler in 1940 and revised with Charles van Doren in 1972
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world...”
– Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via blogut)
November 2011
4 posts
“Now, with Tolkien, that history and geography already existed in his writings...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin: Plausibility in Fantasy
October 2011
10 posts
WatchAnother video about Alex, a Mira Loma alumni and fearless climber.
“I read so many short, easy things. I read the label on the shampoo bottle, I...”
– Miranda July on books. (via somethingchanged)
Programming and Writing — Matt Mullenweg →
Matt (founder of WordPress) provides some links that investigate the connections between programming and writing. What interested me was that one of them is Lamott’s Bird by Bird, which he, as well as my 11th Grade Lit. class, are both reading.
“Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that...”
– Haruki Murakami (via somethingchanged)
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September 2011
6 posts
“What is fiction? And how does reading fiction affect how we experience the...”
– ‘Quixote,’ Colbert and the Reality of Fiction - NYTimes.com
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“Maybe we’ll merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs, using...”
– Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME
Watch Wilco's New 'Born Alone' Video and Read the... →
August 2011
6 posts
“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t...”
– Tim O’Obrien (President’s Lecture, 21 April 1999)
“But if information was once grist for ideas, over the last decade it has become...”
– The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
7 posts
“There are filmmakers whose work is characterized by thrift, efficiency and...”
– ‘Transformers - Dark of the Moon’ Movie Review by A.O, Scott - NYTimes.com
Vincent Moon’s Take-Away Videos - NYTimes.com →
What would come to be known as the Take-Away Shows began when Moon, a film-obsessive in search of an outlet, started shooting experimental performance videos for a French music blog in 2006.
These are great to peruse and watch. My favorites:
Adam Arcuragi, ”Bottom of the River”
Grizzly Bear, “The Knife”
The Tallest Man on Earth, “These Days”
Yo La...
WatchPart three of a very interesting video series about innovation, creativity, borrowing, remixing and, I suppose as Eliot would write, tradition and our individual talents.
Everything is a Remix Part 3 (by Kirby Ferguson)
“For some reason it needs to be asserted, over and over again, that the primary...”
– A.O Scott, in “Defense of Slow and Boring”
Films, NYTimes.com
May 2011
19 posts
“And, since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t...”
– Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. - NYTimes.com
by Jonathan Franzen