A Timed Pause

Oxford University Press: Hard Times: Elizabeth L. Wollman

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:34:56 -0400

Oxford University Press: Hard Times: Elizabeth L. Wollman:

Flavorwire » A Collection of Original Vintage Advertisements for Classic Books

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:31:54 -0400

Flavorwire » A Collection of Original Vintage Advertisements for Classic Books:

"The show has shed its original skin, that of the antihero drama, in which we root for a bad boy in..."

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:39:16 -0400

“The show has shed its original skin, that of the antihero drama, in which we root for a bad boy in spite of ourselves. Instead, it’s more like the late seasons of “The Sopranos,” the first show that dared to punish its audience for loving a monster. This makes “Breaking Bad” a radical type of television, and also a very strange kind of must-watch: a show that you dread and crave at the same time.”

- “Breaking Bad” Review : The New Yorker

danchaon: Interesting sadness for screenwriters: famous...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:27:19 -0400

danchaon:

Interesting sadness for screenwriters: famous unscripted moments in film.

One of my favorites worthy of a lengthier viewing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVhOGDzoA4

“Warriors, come out to play-ay.”

2012 Contest Winners » The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:21:43 -0400

2012 Contest Winners » The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:

My personal favorite:

She slinked through my door wearing a dress that looked like it had been painted on … not with good paint, like Behr or Sherwin-Williams, but with that watered-down stuff that bubbles up right away if you don’t prime the surface before you slap it on, and – just like that cheap paint – the dress needed two more coats to cover her.

Via The Millions

My Book and Beer submission - As I Lay Drinking

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:54:00 -0400

My Book and Beer submission - As I Lay Drinking

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:06:01 -0400

bookmania: Literature takes you places. Where do you want to go...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:03:58 -0400

bookmania:

Literature takes you places. Where do you want to go first?

Macondo?

a whole lot of racking

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:03:23 -0400

Now and then a fellow gets to thinking about it. Not often, though. Which is a good thing. For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it’s like a piece of machinery: it won’t stand a whole lot of racking. It’s best when it all runs along the same, doing the day’s work and not no one part used no more than needful.

"With so many adult readers of the Harry Potter, Twilight and Hunger Games series, journalists are..."

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:05:52 -0400

“With so many adult readers of the Harry Potter, Twilight and Hunger Games series, journalists are more frequently asking the question, What, if anything, separates literary fiction from genre fiction in general and young adult fiction specifically?”

- Brian Platzer - Salon.com

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Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:44:46 -0400

Is Fiction Changing, for Better or Worse? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:13:03 -0400

Is Fiction Changing, for Better or Worse? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

"The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one..."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:40:00 -0400

“The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. It is a habit of antiphony: of call and response.”

- Jhumpa Lahiri - DRAFT - Opinionator - NYTimes.com

vintageanchor: “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:24:38 -0500

vintageanchor:

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
—Mark Twain

Finding Your Book Interrupted ... By the Tablet You Read It On

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:38:00 -0500

Finding Your Book Interrupted ... By the Tablet You Read It On:

“It’s like trying to cook when there are little children around,” said David Myers, 53, a systems administrator in Atlanta, who got a Kindle Fire tablet in December. “A child might do something silly and you’ve got to stop cooking and fix the problem and then return to cooking.”

Um, yeah. Welcome to my life.

"For World Read Aloud Day - Everything about Mr. Ferriss’s book declares: This is not your auntie’s..."

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:36:00 -0500

“

For World Read Aloud Day -

Everything about Mr. Ferriss’s book declares: This is not your auntie’s self-help book. No muffled “I’m OK — You’re OK” tone here. The vibe is: I’m Superbad, bro, and I have dimples. You’re a mole person who, if you become an angel investor in my books, might someday touch the hem of my Speedo.

”

- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html via Great Read-Alouds From The New York Times - NYTimes.com

strandbooks: Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me host, Peter Sagal, and...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:58:56 -0500

strandbooks:

Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me host, Peter Sagal, and guests speculate about the “adult” book JK Rowling is rumored to be writing. (Somewhat NSFW in that benign NPR kind of way.)

To hear the rest of the podcast from 3/3/12, head over here.

"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large..."

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:04:44 -0500

“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. Mark Twain - Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888”

- http://www.twainquotes.com/Lightning.html