You are tired,(I think)Of the always puzzle of living and doing;And so am I.Come with me, then,And well leave it far and far away—(Only you and I, understand!)You have played,(I think)And broke the t...
And my nation was there. We were there: a loose association of lost causes and would-be scribblers, heart-broken artists and more- and less-happily out-of-work actors. We were from everywhere else an...
Finishing a novel is always linked with shame—or rather, the lack of it. Theres a moment when I realize Im no longer ashamed of the jumble of words Ive produced, that the embarrassment of having writ...
But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Moby DickPhoto: Renee Lilley, Dead Horse Bay, B...
At first they had difficulties with the camera. Instead of framing someones face, as they intended, they often photographed his knees or feet. There were no windows in the mountain huts where they sl...
I get asked a lot what my editor made me change, what the “original” versions of my novels looked like, etc. The truth is that novels are not written by one person. Novels are a collaboration—for alm...
All right, but its an unpleasant one. Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. Y...
What are your other inspirations? Aside from literary friendships and books and writing? I can admit to no others. Strait is the gate.Cynthia Ozick in the GuardianMargaret Kilgallen, Untitled, c...
I love you to pieces, distraction, etc. Franny and Zooey, JD SalingerPhoto: Jessica Barensfel and Simon Howell on Freunde von Freunden
I love everything about Rookie and everything about this.
Ive been thinking about writing, how we create from life. Its complicated, of course. Stephen Elliott in todays Daily Rumpus. Painting: Narangkar Glover, Shangri-La Girls School: A Thousand Stairs, 2...
The leitmotif is constant change. Nina Yashar in W Magazine.Photo: The Sartorialist
Nina Poppe via Horse Hunting
As an artist so much of one does is based on faith - in a belief that exceed or ignores societys interest. Roni Horn in a 2006 Keynote to the Graduating Class of the Iceland Academy of ArtsRoni Horn,...
And heres the cover, designed by Elsie Lyons at St. Martins Press with photography by Tess Kongteattikul. I love Tesss work which reminds me of another favorite photographer, Olivia Bee. More about t...
...and our memories of the story are action-based; it burns in our mind as a shining scene with silverware and spilled wine, but the percentage of action lines might be really low. So the goal might ...
Two close friends blurbed my first novel. I am forever in their debt, and I found the whole process a bit humiliating. No strangers were willing to blurb me on the strength of the book itself, and my...
Everything must not be fussed over. Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don’t get all writerly: “He opened the door.” There, it’s open. Amy Hempel, the Art of Fiction, No. 176 in ...
Simon likes to record things that do not officially exist, did not happen, and cannot be seen. Others who possess this urge generally write fiction. Simon sets out to photograph the impossible and th...
First this: There is this German word,Lohmaunsheit, which describes a certain ambivalent kind of affection one may feel with particular others, be the acquaintanceship friendly or romantic - do I wan...
One is prepared for friendship, not for friends. And sometimes not even for friendship, but at least we try: usually we flail in the darkness, a darkness that`s not foreign to us, a darkness that com...
Believe in side projects. Tattly was a side project; swissmiss was a side project; CreativeMornings was a side project; TeuxDeux was a side project. These are all things that turned into revenue stre...
Act 1, Scene 6 First week of November. In the men’s room in the offices of the Brooklyn Federal Court of Appeals. Louis is crying over the sink. Joe enters. JOE: Oh, um...Morning. LOUIS: Good morning...
My lovers love is an illiquid asset. Gleaned from Christian Naglers Market Fitness.Photo: Robert Kinmont, 8 Natural Handstands on view at BAM
At Headlands Center for the Arts.Photo: Cybele Lyles studio by In the Make
A standing ovation can be extorted from the audience. A gasp cannot. True and False; Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor, David MametPhoto: The Selby, Otto Sander and Monika Hansen
She wasnt doing a thing I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. JD Salinger, "A Girl Like That"Photo by Victoria Hannan
She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them. Jedediah Berry via the ugly earringPhoto by Ashley Rose Helvey
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