The Commode

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

— Louis L'Amour, born in 1908


Code-named “the commode,” the operation culminated a 40-year hunt for one of the most expensive books in the world... Richest Book

“Why I like writing is: it always feels like the first book.”

'Could become the most successful memoir ever': Michelle Obama's book a bonanza for German giant

'Could become the most successful memoir ever': Michelle Obama's book a bonanza for German giant

 Episode 312 – Bram Presser – The Virtual Memories Show.

“To me, this is a book about how we tell stories, and how we come to understand stories.”

Literary parties are generally awkward disasters. This holds in fiction and in life. As John O’Hara put it, they are about “terrible people” getting “gloriously drunk  

Hannah Arendt knew that being human in inhuman times is hard, occasionally impossible work. She is a thinker of the difficult, a thinker   for now

The genre of books about growing old is nearly as old as old age itself. They fall into three categories: the scientific, the personal, and the political 

Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? BBC

• Jazz and soccer
• Disneyland of death
• Nietzsche's strangeness
• How to move a masterpiece
• History of sushi
• Reading and drinking
• Origins of 'f' words
• Can machines create?
• -lude
• Ferlinghetti's San Francisco
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• … j  The Prison of Purity | The American Spectator
  
  

  There’s one place left in the world where you can find mercy. It’s called the Christian church. (Make sure you inquire at a traditional or biblical church — not the mainline kind where they’ve traded their freedom for slavery to cultural fashion.) All your life you’ve been told that traditional Christians are scolds and hypocrites, dispensing scarlet letters left and right and pointing bony fingers at sinners. In fact, we’re the last refuge of mercy in today’s world. We don’t care what you used to be — the worse you used to be, the more we’ll celebrate your changed life. Redemption is what we’re all about.