February 2012
18 posts
“Dodie Bellamy: “An in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability is a...”
– Dodie Bellamy via Emily Books (via rachelfershleiser)
“Paper books may be the only media remaining that don’t report your behavior back...”
– (via wwnorton)
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HAH!
“About the only positive development at court for which Charles could take some credit had occurred on July 3 [1423], when Yolande’s daughter Marie gave birth to the couple’s first child, a son, Louis, thereby establishing a line of succession, although even here Charles could not really be said to have done the heavy lifting.”
The Maid and the Queen (galley)
that Joan of...
January 2012
25 posts
One day left to sign up for World Book Night... →
wwnorton:
UPDATE: Deadline extended to 2/6/12.
Okay, slacker, so you got an extension. Lucky you. Now take advantage of it and apply to be a book giver on World Book Night and help drop an insane amount of free books on the unsuspecting masses.
“One attractive thing about me is that I’m never bored, because during any...”
– MATING by Norman Rush
National Book Award, 1991
which one do you prefer?
according to one commenter, “Looking at their facial expressions, #2 looks more like a fist-bump thing, whereas #1 definitely looks like she’s going Tyler Durden on you.”
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“ANNE CARSON: “But over the years of working at it, I came to think of...”
– NOX
James Baldwin = smart
“It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself — that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is...
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“IF WE HAD NOT LOVED EACH OTHER NONE OF US WOULD HAVE SURVIVED
“Well, you...”
– James Baldwin, My Dungeon Shook
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not your inferiority but their inhumanity and fear
“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I or time or history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know...
