December 2011
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“I am thinking tonight, as I address this unenviable task, of Flannery O’Connor,...”
– Via Unsaid, from the wonderful Padgett Powell’s Craft Talk without Craft, originally presented to the MFA Creative Writing Program of Columbia University in September, 2010.
Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via solipsism2)
Dec 17th
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“If it was a belief in astrology, say, which is based on the same mentality as...”
– Christopher Hitchens, from his 2007 Powells.com interview
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Surprisingly, I am... →
housingworksbookstore: In which Dustin, the least grumpy person I know, becomes gloriously and articulately rankled at Farhad Manjoo. Read the whole thing. towirr: A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent…
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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