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On the Phone, In Your Ears
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Here I am on the telephone with the genius @holdengraber. This call was just the pause I needed.
“I don’t really trust cartographers nor do I trust maps because I think historically in America and elsewhere they are documents that frame out certain people and narratives.”
This week, @sarahmbroom picks up the call on @LitHub Radio! lithub.com/sarah-broom-on-re…
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"If anyone said anything bad about Norman Mailer, they would snatch the book out of the person’s hand and throw them out. . . . The customer was always wrong."
On @CallFromPaul, @holdengraber talks to John Waters about working at Mary Oliver's bookstore.
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As @holdengraber says: "the reason we love people is because we share their adjectives" (lithub.com/wayne-koestenbaum…)
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What about an anthology where writers write about the best thing they learned while they were recklessly diving down internet rabbit holes to avoid writing?
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"There is a consistent affirmation in Oliver’s poetry that we are worthy of our lover’s time, effort, gratitude."
@jeannakadlec on the affirmation of queer desire in Mary Oliver's work.
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The best prefaces “unstopper the vial that contains, like some volatile oil, the fragrance of the time in which the prefaced work was engendered, conceived, or written, summoning for writer and reader alike a sensuous jolt of things past.” theparisreview.org/blog/2019…
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Byron really lived, his life was truly imaginary — under the figment of the passional self there is a mage, though he himself was not aware of the fact.
— Lawrence Durrell
Lord Byron #botd
after George Sanders (Saunders)
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1860s (1808-1809)
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“What kind of times are these, when
To talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?”
~ Bertolt Brecht
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No hyperbole here. A singular, shattering book nytimes.com/2019/01/22/books…
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Mary Oliver “managed—to paraphrase Wordsworth—to create the taste by which she was enjoyed. She had not merely fans but true followers.” theparisreview.org/blog/2019…
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“We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words,” she writes. “Where else can we meet but in stories now?”
@parul_sehgal on Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End
No hyperbole here. A singular, shattering book nytimes.com/2019/01/22/books…
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“Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust…fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off itself, destroying its host in the process.”
Le Guin, who died a year ago today, on anger brainpickings.org/2014/10/17…
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30 August, 1931
The truth is, desire, gone mouldy, is not a sweet smell; venerable though the vessel of lust may be.
Virginia
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill
A certain portion of uncertain paper:
Some liken it to climbing up a hill,
Whose summit, like all hills', is lost in vapour
Happy Birthday, Lord Byron! Born #OnThisDay 1788
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“There’s no preparation for poetry. Four years of grave digging with a nice volume of poetry or a book of philosophy in one’s pocket would serve as well as any university.” —Charles Simic theparisreview.org/interview…
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