October 2010
26 posts
“There’s no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it’s like drilling rock and blasting it out with charges.”
—
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway called the blank page “the white bull.” To start a new novel or a new chapter was to fight the white bull, to look it in the eye, to attempt — and sometimes fail — to stare it down.
(via madisonarm)
Six O'Clock News (Kathleen Edwards)
Paul Jacobsen & The Madison Arm
Paul Jacobsen & The Madison Arm - “Six O’Clock News” (Kathleen Edwards cover)
Beautiful.
Philip Roth interviewed on "Fresh Air" →
npr.org
TERRY GROSS: So if [writing] is so hard, why do it?
PHILIP ROTH: Well, that’s a question I ask myself too. I’ve been doing it since 1955. So that’s 55 years. It’s hard to give up something you’ve been doing for 55 years, which has been at the center of your life, where you spend six, eight, sometimes ten hours a day. And I always have worked every day, and I’m kind of a maniac, you know. How could a maniac give up what he does? Tell me.
GROSS: Is that seven days a week, like Saturday and Sunday?
Mr. ROTH: Yeah, I usually do, yeah.
GROSS: That is obsessive.
Mr. ROTH: Maniacal.
GROSS: Maniacal?
Mr. ROTH: Give it its right name. It’s maniacal.
(via nprfreshair)
Teddy Thompson - "Tonight Will Be Fine" →
youtube.com
Cover of a Leonard Cohen song. Embedding disabled; you have to watch on YouTube. Worth the click, believe me.
“Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it’s a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.”
—Arlo Guthrie (via madisonarm)
“Train your weakness, race your strength”
—An adage of bicycle racers (via Frank Chimero)
"Next" by James Hynes →
ow.ly
On the blog: James Hynes’s “Next” is simply one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
Good F***ing Design Advice →
goodfuckingdesignadvice.com
The name of the site fucking says it all.
