March 2013
1 post
February 2013
1 post
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via readandbreathe)
January 2013
1 post
“When I look down from this transcendency, how beautiful are even the crumbled...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
October 2012
1 post
“There is a time for multi-tasking and a time for losing yourself. The short...”
– Lorin Stein on the state of the short story for Publishers Weekly. (via theparisreview)
May 2012
1 post
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
3 posts
"This is another source of the genre’s appeal: in... →
- Sam Anderson, on reaction videos, in The New York Times Magazine
July 2011
0 posts
May 2011
2 posts
"Even Vladimir Nabokov had an eye for... →
For every author that squirms at the thought of shameless self-promotion, whom I cajole into writing op-eds and guest blog entries: Know that you are entering a long and celebrated tradition.
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
3 posts
New York According to Trip Advisor
CENTRAL PARK
nipon4
Maybe I have been spoilt, having grown up in Asia and seeing botanical gardens with gorgeous exotic flowers etc, but this was just a big space with trees and grass.
sirscout
One thing that no one told us about was the smell - with all the horses and the homeless - you get the idea.
sarahkScotland
The worst part of it was Strawberry Fields, its just a small...
February 2011
2 posts
“As the sky darkened outside, I sat and watched as, one by one, villages young...”
– Rebecca Mead, “Middlemarch and Me,” The New Yorker Feb. 14 & 21
24 Reasons I Have Not Gone to the Gym
Top Chef has a new episode on Hulu.
I need to make these cucumbers into pickles now.
My sneakers are too far down in my shoe pile.
I just washed my hair and don’t want to get it dirty again.
Why exercise if I’m just going to eat again?
I didn’t come to New York to spend my life in the gym.
I have makeup on from this morning and I don’t want it to clog my pores.
Why wash my face if I’m just going...
January 2011
5 posts
“There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all...”
– Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
December 2010
6 posts
“My mother told me the first things I wrote were continuations of the stories I...”
– Mario Vargas Llosa, “In Praise of Reading and Fiction,” his Nobel lecture
“When at last I came across the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House
What happens when an industry concerned with the... →
“The only bros for me are the awesome ones, the ones who are mad to chug, mad to...”
– Every sentence of ‘On the Road,’ retold for bros
November 2010
3 posts
I am conditioning myself to guess correctly the number of pages in a book just by holding it.
“I believe you have to reach a certain age before you understand how much life...”
– Sigrid Nunez, The Last of Her Kind
October 2010
1 post
“We’ve all got this “literary” fiction that simply monotones...”
– David Foster Wallace, against the Ellises and Franzens 