February 2012
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oh god i'm going to explode
i have to interview a very important person very soon and i may just self-implode or self-explode. it’s a tough decision but i know the answer will come to me shortly.
“This is a timely exhibition. At a moment when too much art is dependent for its...”
– ‘Cindy Sherman’ at Museum of Modern Art - NYTimes.com (via photographsonthebrain)
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It's OK to Have a Point: A Defense of Literature...
An absence of agenda isn’t equal to absence of significance or an absence of ideas. In the way that works with an agenda are like Paris, works of undirected representation are like the Amazon; the reader wanders through the events and images focusing on whatever landmarks of narrative topography catch her interest, creating significance and ideas through his intellectual interaction with the...
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pickerel lake by sufjan stevens
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happy birthday, wish you were still around
David Foster Wallace: There are writers in America who consider themselves only novelists. I do all kinds of different things. I will probably at some point finish a novel. Whether it will be good enough to publish, I don’t know. I tend to start three or four things for every one thing that gets finished. I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that’s how I started writing, but I’ve also...
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Correction: An earlier version of this story inaccurately quoted Bob Schieffer as asking Rick Santorum, “What in the world were you thinking?” This has been corrected to read “What in the world were you talking about?”
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“I miss holding my breath.”
– Mary Ruefle, from “Elegy for a Game” (via proustitute)
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from Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports...
The following day, on a bus out of town, I found myself next to a wonderfully high-spirited white-haired old lady from Pontiac, Michigan. Had she come here on a tour? I asked routinely. Certainly not, she declared with vigor: she was a card-carrying Communist, a supporter of Gus Hall and a solo traveler on her second inspection of the mainland. Her husband had died six years ago, she went on,...
