January 2012
13 posts
Most of what makes a book ‘good’ is that we are reading it at the right moment...
– Alain de Botton (via austinkleon)
Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate, but I got it from Austin Kleon)
December 2011
8 posts
If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you’re going to have...
– Donald E. Westlake, in this 2006 AV Club interview.
November 2011
12 posts
Awards have three things to offer: cash, confidence and bric-a-brac. A few offer...
– Stephen Sondheim, from Look, I Made a Hat
Just tell the truth, and they’ll accuse you of writing black humor.
– Charles Willeford (via writingquotes)
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October 2011
22 posts
You almost never see my name in print without the phrase cult writer glued to...
– Dennis Cooper, in his Paris Review interview, Autumn 2011.
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Also, and I think probably most importantly from a philosophical point of view,...
– John Scalzi, in this post, with a lovely way of looking at buying electronically.
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Under Cover
jtlindroos:
For some months I’ve been working on a secretive new publishing venture from Scotsmen Allan Guthrie and Kyle MacRae.
You can see some of the results of that work in this video from Blasted Heath:
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