February 2011
207 posts
First Love and Snowy Parks
January 31st
I woke up in Central Park house, a hotel on the Upper West Side my friend stayed in, cold and stressed. It was nine a.m. and I had less than four hours to ride the A, grab breakfast, board the metro north, and get to work.
With only a collared shirt and a leather jacket to cover my dry skin, I speed walked- not like a New Yorker, but like a South Floridian trained from birth to get...
Sometimes I think learning to write is just learning structure, style, and how to trust my own voice, a.k.a. confidence.
January 2011
169 posts
“I think that was actually the beginning of figuring out this is art. You can do...”
– Miranda July in this interview: http://fashion.elle.com/culture/2011/01/31/miranda-july-used-to-interview-towels/?cid=sm_tw
I woke up very sickly. I’m lying in bed and doing work and sleeping it off all day.
“How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many...”
– Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (via paintmegreeen-)
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown →
“Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can’t Live It. I can’t even explain. I know...”
– — Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via bunnymitford) (via awritersruminations, bunnymitford) (via libraryland)
Walking down central park west, I thought I had yet to meet my first love. Then I remembered my first night in New York, when I lied on a bed in the plaza at the ripe age of eight years old. The city’s the best love because it possesses every joy: the energy, music, culture, and bounce. I could never ask for more.
Discographies I Own
Smashing Pumpkins
Fiona Apple
Britney Spears
Hole
Corinne Bailey Rae
Amy Winoehouse
Lady Gaga
Girls
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
powells:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge...
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”
– The great and usually insightful Courtney Love
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington (via kari-shma)
Across the Universe Winner!
renkellym:
Thanks to everyone who entered! The winner, selected by Random.org, is… Stephanie O! Congrats, Stephanie! (Stephanie has already replied to my email, and the book is on its way to her) If you didn’t win, no worries! There will be plenty of other giveaways soon. Hang tight!
Vote for our friends at Green Apple Books! →
fountainbookstore:
Which bookstore is better? Green Apple or the Strand. We know where we stand. Plus, this will kill a few minutes when you’re supposed to be working. Much more fun.
You’re welcome.
“I’ve been working on a detective story that starts at St Giles-in-the-Fields in...”
– -Patti Smith (via flavorpill)
“Bella’s overweening blandness—-as much as the guilty pleasure rescue fantasy,...”
– I hate to admit that there’s something to this, but I think she may just be right. I mean, how else to understand the appeal of such poorly written fiction?
Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter
(via bookladysblog) 