September 2011
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“Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that...”
– Jonathan Franzen, in a New York Times piece adapted from the commencement speech he delivered May 21 at Kenyon College (via sheenalouise)
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I published the last part of this quotation a few months ago, I believe. But here is more of it. Thanks, Sheena. Also, for your own good, read...
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WatchHappy Rosh Hashanah everyone. What better way to ring in the year 5772 than with a little tradition on NPR?
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Sometimes I think I could fill a book just on life in Selly Oak. What a place.
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If You Forget Me
I want you to know one thing.
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well,...
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“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with...”
– Paul Engle, The New York Times, 17 February 1957
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WatchInlets.
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“Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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WatchJ. Tillman
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Hey. This was my first by him. Really well done, and obviously provocative.
jonathansplitlog replied to your photo: Just Read. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel…
I read this book last year, I love anything Pullman does.
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“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting,...”
– Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon (via bookmania)