If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
~Shelby Foote, born in 1916
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
~Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Sperm whale found dead with 13 pounds of plastic in its stomachNational Geographic
Trump thanks himself on Thanksgiving
"This country is so much stronger now than it was when I took office that you wouldn't believe it."
Shakespeare said ‘one man in his time plays many parts LISTICLE: The 10 Greatest Moments in Modern Sports History
Jeremy Spinak: a personal tribute from an old friend and colleague
Jeremy Spinak: a personal tribute from an old friend and colleague
BRUCE BAWER: The Most High-Profile Apostate Yet.
The typewriter that kept coming back
Erica Huang
The typewriter that kept coming back
How Canadian Literature Blew Up
In an attention economy, controversy has value. It’s no exaggeration to say these political battles within CanLit now dominate the discussion of Canadian writers and writing. The “appropriation prize” controversy, for example, blew up in a journal that few people had ever heard of much less read, and yet it garnered an enormous amount of national media coverage. And, while Joseph Boyden is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, he is probably better known today for questions raised about whether or not he qualifies as an Indigenous author. … [Read More]
From a tweet of Niclas Berggren. Recommended.
Vellichor is “the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.”
I feel very strongly ellipsism: “a sadness that you’ll never know how history turned out.” Of course, the only thing worse than ellipsism is…non-ellipsism.
St. Hildegard, a German nun known for her keen observation
of nature and physiology, among other things, wrote about the healing
properties of the Arnica montana plant in the 12th century. Since at
least the 16th century, mountain people in that area have used it to
relieve muscle aches and bruises.
The KGB agent, the frogmen, and the hit
The psychology of holding cigarettes?
Is There Any Way For The TV Version Of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ To Compare Well With The Book?
Perhaps. Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet of books are loved for their main character's thoughts, but "while My Brilliant Friend is a brilliantly sustained exercise in interiority, it is also a noisy, messy, soap opera (as the index of characters, neatly captured in the TV credits by old-fashioned family photo tableaux, suggests)." … [Read More]
