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newyorker: Cartoon by Paul Noth. For...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:06:25 -0800

Cartoon by Paul Noth. For more: http://nyr.kr/13cgE11

mothernaturenetwork: 10 gorgeous U.S. waterfront campgrounds...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:07:21 -0800

10 gorgeous U.S. waterfront campgrounds

We’ve found several camping areas on lakes, rivers and the ocean that offer beautiful views and plenty of recreational opportunities.

So far, I’ve only stayed at five of these.

theparisreview: “This obsession with what people put in their...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:05:54 -0800

theparisreview:

“This obsession with what people put in their bodies shows us literature and culture doing what became, in the years between the World Wars, their job: to create a better consumer.”

Read more of Jacob Leland’s “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: Modernists Go Off-Menu” here.

theparisreview: “She wrote an advice column for a Rio paper...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:26:53 -0800

theparisreview:

“She wrote an advice column for a Rio paper with tips such as ‘Act as if your problems don’t exist,’ and ‘No matter how French your perfume is, it’s often the grilled meat that matters.’”

Issue 203 contributor Rachel Kushner writes about Clarice Lispector in B

artchipel: Catherine Nelson (b.1970, Australia) - Future...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:48:42 -0800

artchipel:

Catherine Nelson (b.1970, Australia) - Future memories (2010)

Catherine Nelson is a visual artist who uses the digital medium to paint images together into personal and imaginary landscapes. Trained as a painter in Sydney and London and with years of experience in the creation of visual effects for feature films like Moulin Rouge and Harry Potter, she now has dedicated her skills to her own art work combining the techniques from both these worlds into a new contemporary art medium.

[more Catherine Nelson | artist found at leslieseuffert]

Spring.

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:38:00 -0800

Buds swelling on the star magnolias.

guardian: Powerful image from New Delhi, India: Hundreds of...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:36:53 -0800

guardian:

Powerful image from New Delhi, India: Hundreds of Indian women and men participate in a peace march to pay homage to the gang rape victim and for women’s safety Photograph: Anindito Mukherjee/EPA

theparisreview: “The books I read are the ones I knew and loved...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:10:43 -0800

theparisreview:

“The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.” —William Faulkner

atencio: David Hockney pool at the Roosevelt Hotel. (Taken with...

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:34:40 -0700

atencio:

David Hockney pool at the Roosevelt Hotel. (Taken with instagram)

writersnoonereads: Repeated from my 50 Watts post on The...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:59:07 -0700

writersnoonereads:

Repeated from my 50 Watts post on The Writing of Stones:

Roger Caillois (1913–78) is a fascinating literary figure, “neither an academic nor a journalist, neither a scientist nor a researcher, nor could he ever be termed an ‘intellectual,’” in the words of Denis Hollier, though he was elected to the Académie Française in 1971. After studying with Kojève and Mauss, in the ’30s, Caillois played a role in early Bataille projects like Acéphale and the College of Sociology. His first book, The Necessity of Mind—written at twenty but published posthumously—deals with the praying mantis, but contains lines like “I wanted to cross the border of my skin, live on the other side of my sense” (making me wonder how he got on with Daumal and Gilbert-Lecomte). He was responsible for salvaging from oblivion one of my favorite books, Jan Potocki’s Saragossa Manuscript (basis for the movie). A well-regarded anthologist and a protégé of Jean Paulhan, Caillois introduced Borges and Carpentier and many other Latin American writers to France (he lived in Argentina during the war). He also wrote a novel about Pontius Pilate and founded and edited Diogenes. You can sample his essays in The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader and read a little more about him on wikipedia.

Also in English:

—Man, Play, and Games
—Man and the Sacred
—The Mask of Medusa

"I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them."

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:57:47 -0700

“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them.”

- John Ashbery (via theparisreview)

George Szirtes: 777,724

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:42:40 -0700

George Szirtes: 777,724

Chicago Underground Library at CCC 2011

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:26:32 -0700

tobeshelved:

bodywallet:

creatorcampchicago:

Confirmed: Kate Calahan of the Chicago Underground Library will be one of our speakers!

The Chicago Underground Library is a new model for open, location-specific archiving of independent and small press media. They feature books, magazines, zines, journals, broadsides, newspapers, and art books of all types, genres, and print runs from the Chicago area.

Join us at CCC 2011 and hear from Kate!

cooool

Well that is cool.

Rats Off!: The Routes By Which I Attempted to Contact You—McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:24:58 -0700

Rats Off!: The Routes By Which I Attempted to Contact You—McSweeney's Internet Tendency:

ratsoff:

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The Routes By Which I Attempted to Contact You

By Sheridan MacAuley

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I left a comment on your blog. Rather than using my real name, I used my handle and linked to my own blog. You would have had to click on my profile to see who I was, and then you would need to have…

motherjones: Your eerily true Onion headline of the day: Cat...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:48:50 -0700

motherjones:

Your eerily true Onion headline of the day:

Cat Congress Mired In Sunbeam

WASHINGTON—The current session of the 111th Cat Congress was once again suspended Tuesday following the sudden introduction of a sunbeam onto the Senate floor, a development that has left a majority of transfixed lawmakers unable to move forward.

The ray of sunlight, which first appears in the official record at 11:30 a.m., interrupted debate over S. 391, a proposal to provide underprivileged felines with universal access to scratching posts.

“We’ve come up against an unforeseen circumstance, but we’ll resume deliberation and voting as quickly as is reasonably possible,” said majority leader and Budget Committee chaircat Sen. Creamsicle (D-ND), stretching out to his entire length and repeatedly kneading the chamber carpet. “I think I speak for most of my colleagues when I say that, while it is extremely important we continue the legislative work at hand, we must first give this warm and bright beam of light the due consideration it deserves.”…

Anger and Disgust

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:25:05 -0700

Our two major political parties have been totally bought and paid for by large corporations. Writing may save me from drowning in the anger and disgust I feel toward our national leaders. It does little or nothing to help the poor, the elderly, the young who are the targets of these greedy, immoral monsters. It does nothing to help the middle class as its potential for a better life is swept away.

"Writing is the gradual revelation of a wholeness already felt when one has the idea for the poem."

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:48:34 -0700

“Writing is the gradual revelation of a wholeness already felt when one has the idea for the poem.”

- Stephen Spender (via theparisreview)

"For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz."

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:15:18 -0800

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”

- Francoise Sagan (via theparisreview)

Routine

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:01:34 -0800

I am beginning to appreciate the productivity that comes from routine. I wake around 3:30 and read and/or write till 6:30 when I make coffee/breakfast/snacks for the day. I check messages/news,etc. Then I exercise while listening to “Democracy Now.” Then it’s back to work unless I have errands or other work to do.

"A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings..."

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:20:39 -0800

“A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.”

- John Steinbeck (via theparisreview)