Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.
Louisa May Alcott; Little Women
[My father is nothing like this. Literary fathers can be so much better than real ones]
elliott holt: Short Stories You Should Read
Listed in no particular order. I forced myself to choose only one story per writer (very difficult in some cases). There is a lot of amazing short fiction out there, but these are stories—of various styles—that have stuck with me over the years and have taught me what a story can be. I’m sure…
Why is there no David Foster Wallace? No list of short stories is complete without at least one short story from DFW, sorry.
Ray Bradbury Talks Inspiration and Advice in a Fascinating 1963 Film
“If I hadn’t discovered writing, I think I really would have become a magician,” the iconic author explains in Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer, a 25-minute documentary about his life and work.
I’m shameless, I’ll read anything. Screw those people who think reading only ‘high-brow’ literature is what everyone should read. The point is to read and that’s what I do.
Currently reading these two works.
‘How to Produce Miracles’
Powells Rare Book Room, Portland, Oregon.
February, 2012
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
The wisdom of age.
True.
60 plays
Warren Zevon - Carmelita
Well, I’m sittin’ here playing solitaire
With my pearl-handled deck
The county won’t give me no more methadone
And they cut off your welfare check
Carmelita, hold me tighter
I think I’m sinking down
And I’m all strung out on heroin
On the outskirts of town
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
The Bookstore Cat by suswann on Flickr.
And that’s good.
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