a thousand thousand slimy things October 21st, 2014 @ 9:05 am PDT
[Today is] the birthday of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born in Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, England (1772). He was a very ambitious young man, who lectured on religion, wrote journalism, and single-handedly tried to launch his own magazine. But he was exhausting himself and falling into a depression when he was introduced […]
On Writing … July 16th, 2014 @ 10:36 am PDT
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends. Mickey Spillane
Happy Birthday, James February 2nd, 2014 @ 6:09 am PST
On James Joyce
Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham January 25th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm PST
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” W. Somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965
On creativity January 23rd, 2014 @ 7:06 am PST
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert
On history January 9th, 2014 @ 7:52 am PST
People have been saying this for thousands of years.
On Literature December 15th, 2013 @ 6:12 am PST
“Fuck literature.” Ernest Hemingway, 1924, in a letter to Ezra Pound
On Spenser November 18th, 2013 @ 8:07 am PST
On Symbolism October 20th, 2013 @ 9:15 am PDT
“Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is […]
Writing Isn’t Easy October 2nd, 2013 @ 11:01 pm PDT
For a few months this summer I was a Birchbox member. It’s a pretty cool service. For $20/mo you get a little box full of samples of hair products, shampoo, soap, and other toiletries, and then they also include something interesting like a pair of sunglasses or a wallet or an iPhone cable. The last […]
