— John Keats. (To whom I say, “Go get ‘em, Tyger!”)
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— “Independent People,” by Halldor Laxness
This should clear up all the flavors of publishing, from traditional to totally DIY, and everything in-between.
We all want to be happy. But how, exactly, do you go about it? More stuff or less? More choice or less? The answers — from psychologists, journalists, Buddhist monks — may surprise you.
But you can be happy if want to be. It’s volitional. Dig it.
Here he is talking in compassionate and reasonable ways about how to save lives.
Representin’ Boston hi-side/lo-side!
The best writing in English today is done by Americans, but not in any purist tradition. They have roughed the language around as Shakespeare did and done it the violence of melodrama and the press box. they have knocked over tombs and sneered at the dead. Which is as it should be. There are too many dead men and there is too much talk about them.
The man really knows his way around a sentence.
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“Dad’s Theory of Arrogance—that everyone always assumes they’re the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else’s Broadway...
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What’s okay & not okay to criticize in workshop, and how to size up the critique? By...
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Raymond Carver (1938-1988), was a poet before he was celebrated as a writer of short stories. Here is “Eagles,” from his 1985 collection Where...
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“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”— Philip Roth (via writerlyconundrums)
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This “reading nest” is 32 square feet, built on a private client’s property by a Dutch architect. You know you want one.
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Django played better with just two fingers than you could play with seven hands and your face.
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French cultural minister Aurélie Filippetti says the government is creating a fund to help struggling independent bookstores to ensure that...