Posts tagged “writing”
“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 what you see beyond when you know.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1952, in a letter to Bernard Berenson
Writing Isn’t Easy
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
Notes from History
Can you imagine opening a book and finding a note from Hemingway inside?
Alternate Endings
The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college.
Jason Kottke recently posted an interesting tidbit about Ernest Hemingway’s standing desk.
Finding a Box of Family Letters
This poem is beautiful.
Five (More) Miles in Los Angeles
Some notes after a long run
Spenser: For Hire
On the death of my favorite author
The Bats Are Coming
It’s when you can’t hear the bats, that’s when the bats are coming. That is what is printed on the front of the birthday card I received from my brother-in-law. On the inside it says, “Other than that, I have no birthday advice.”