January 2012
45 posts
“Barbara Nitke and I watched [Rachel Ray] do her perky act with a ripe tomato....”
– Barbara Nitke studies the parallels between the Food Network and hardcore pornography. Pretty great. Read.
“An empty plastic glass sat in her hand like an egg collected at dusk.”
– John Updike, Bech Is Back.
There are few writers I find as wondrous and remarkably effortless as John Updike.
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“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo Sapiens —...”
– Reynolds Price, A Palpable God.
Hmm. That is something.
“Liturgical time is essentially poetic-time, oriented toward process rather than...”
– Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk. Worth investigating.
going places gives me something to do. it’s too cold to shower: there’s no light yet and everything is freezing. it’s not much warmer in the next place. i know because i checked. it will barely break fifty at high noon, even in the desert. on the way out of zacatecas, the plane banks sharply on take-off. on every tray table juice slides softly in paper cups. a flight attendant on...
“All that each person is, and experiences, and shall ever experience, in body and...”
– James Agee.
December 2011
36 posts
“Those first years when you can’t blow your own nose, when your father...”
– A.A. Gill, “Fatherhood” — from Is Further Away
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