May 2012
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“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in...”
– A. Bartlett Giamatti
May 24th
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May 24th
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Scott Belsky, “How To Avoid the Idea Generation Trap”: moving from the natural excitement of a new idea to the “doldrums” of execution.
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 16th
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Into the Woods →
mysteryatbbd: Honored to feature this powerful post by William Landay, author of Defending Jacob: Does it help to see where a novel is set? Would you understand Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County any better if you actually visited his Mississippi? Is it even possible to understand Dickens if you have no idea what Victorian London looked like?… Continue reading
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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May 3rd
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May 1st
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Simon Callow on Dickens’ London.
May 1st
April 2012
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"There is only the trying"
So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years— Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 19th
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Apr 12th
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March 2012
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Mar 28th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 6th
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Mar 5th
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Nathan Englander: “Write what you know” is the best and most misunderstood advice on writing. (via Big Think)
Mar 5th
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“Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the...”
– Francis Bacon
Mar 5th
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"MCMXIV" by Philip Larkin
Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun On moustached archaic faces Grinning as if it were all An August Bank Holiday lark; And the shut shops, the bleached Established names on the sunblinds, The farthings and sovereigns, And dark-clothed children at play Called after kings and queens, The tin...
Mar 5th
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February 2012
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Feb 27th
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Feb 21st
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January 2012
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Jan 29th
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, a lovely homage to books from Moonbot Studios, dubbed “Pixar for the iPad age.” Best thing since Spike Jonze and Olympia LeTan’s cut-paper animated love story for book-lovers. (Source, via.)
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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The Blue Ocean in RED by Howard Hall (watch it full screen)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“Good work tends to happen only at the end of day: when the fear of accomplishing...”
– Alain de Botton
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Big News →
It crosses every writer’s mind at some point: what would it be like to be picked for the Indie Next list? Or B&N Recommends? Happily, I’m about to find out. — William Landay’s blog
Jan 16th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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December 2011
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