August 2012
“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks...”
– Flannery O’Connor responds to a school teacher’s odd take on A Good Man Is Hard to Find, offering some timeless broader insight on storytelling and interpretation in the process.
Susan Sontag put it even more forcefully: “Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely...
HEY HATERZ
howdoiputthisgently:
WHEN I HEAR SARAH PALIN SPEAK
howdoiputthisgently:
Everything is Fiction
michellehodkin:
“If I don’t break my own heart in the writing of a book then I know I’ve done it wrong.”
Via this absolutely perfect piece on writing by Keith Ridgway in The New Yorker.
WHEN ASKED WHY I WATCH LAW AND ORDER SVU
howdoiputthisgently:
I’M LIKE:
BUT MOSTLY:
Ohhhhhh, Elliot.
“Two women, let alone a man and a woman, who vow themselves to each other...”
– A list of “rare things” from 11th-century Japanese court lady Sei Shonagon, the world’s first “blogger” (via explore-blog)
“There are a number of ways that your memory can get in the way of a good writing...”
– Steven Johnson on why everyone should keep a spark file (via explore-blog)
awkwords: i guess it's up to me to take this stand →
awkstraordinary-girl:
since no one else seems to be able to say it.
follow closely, kids.
Look at the mask:
Now look at Adrien Brody:
Now look back at the mask:
and imagine some douchebag art student with a permanent smug tattooed on his face wore the mask to a big kegger and then passed out on…
