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Archive for May, 2010
Guest Post, by Adam Robinson: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Farewell to Arms, Adam Robinson, Ernest Hemingway on May 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“I sat in the chair and looked at the floor and prayed for Catherine.” –From Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
A Sentence about a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Al Pacino, Chinatown, Cronus, Francis Ford Coppala, John Cazale, Mario Puzo, Roman Polanski, The Godfather II on May 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“It’s the way Pop wanted it.” – from The Godfather Part II, screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Guest Post, by Joseph Young: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall, Joseph Young, Sir Thomas Browne on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“From animals are drawn good burning lights, and good medicines against burning; Though the seminal humour seems of a contrary nature to fire, yet the body compleated proves a combustible lump, wherein fire findes flame even from bones, and some fuell almost from all parts; though the metropolis of humidity seems least disposed unto it, [...]
Guest Post, by Lily Hoang: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lily Hoang, Michael Stewart, Tale of the Unknown Island on May 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“A man went to knock at the king’s door and said, Give me a boat.” –from Jose Saramago’s Tale of the Unknown Island
Guest Post, by Bradley Sands: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bradley Sands, The Thought Gang, Tibor Fischer on May 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“The only advice I can offer, should you wake up vertiginously in a strange flat, with a thoroughly installed hangover, without any of your clothing, without any recollection of how you got there, with the police sledgehammering down the door to the accompaniment of excited dogs, while you are surrounded by bales of lavishly-produced magazines [...]
Symmetries
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I just realized (don’t know how I’ve missed this for so long) that Pavement’s “Silent Kit” is really close to Buddy Holly’s “Everyday.” Check it out: I know Malkmus liked Buddy Holly, but the relation of “Silence Kit” to “Everyday” feels tricky to me. It’s not an adaptation and I don’t think it’s a rip-off [...]
Dumb Shit That Gets You Down
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2010 | 29 Comments »
Rejections are tough, no question. And editors, God bless ‘em, are known to reach out on occasion and provide a word or two of explanation–usually to soften the blow. But sometimes it backfires. Sometimes what an editor, through the goodness of his/her heart, provides by way of explanation can be outrageous, insulting, or worse: can [...]
Guest Post, by Tim Horvath: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mating, Norman Rush, Tim Horvath on May 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“In Africa, you want more, I think.” –From Norman Rush’s Mating
Guest Post, by Paula Bomer: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, John Berryman on May 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
everything down hardens I press with horrible joy down my back cracks like a wrist shame I am voiding oh behind it is too late hide me forever I work thrust I must free now I all muscles & bones concentrate what is living from dying? –From John Berryman’s “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet”
Guest Post, by Ari Juels: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde on May 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him before Henry Jekyll with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God. –From Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Have You Read This?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The new issue of Alice Blue? It has good good words in it, including a kick-ass piece by BigOther’s own A. D. Jameson. Check it out.
Crazyhorse Quick Quotes Contest
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Crazyhorse Magazine asked people to send in their favorite short quotes on writing. Out of over 500 entries, they picked 20 and then they picked 80 more to post in the perpetual quote box on their site. I found the results unsurprising, though not necessarily untrue or not inspired or insightful. Those are listed below. [...]
Guest Post, by Dan Wickett: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Novy, Dan Wickett, The Avian Gospels on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Could he maybe take a mulligan on being the messiah?” –From Adam Novy’s The Avian Gospels
Guest Post, by Diane Lefer: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "The Johnstown Polka", Diane Lefer, Sharon Sheehe Stark, The Dealers' Yard on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
But what they perceive as tranquility, Francine experiences as a sort of unpleasant limpness, her heart a slack muscle, as if after having delivered an outsized grief, it never quite snapped back and stubbornly holds, if not sorrow itself, then the soft shape of it. –From Sharon Sheehe Stark’s “The Johnstown Polka,” from The Dealer’s [...]
Guest Post, by Alexandra Chasin: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexandra Chasin, Days of Our Lives on May 10, 2010 | 12 Comments »
“Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“She had a lively quiet about her.” – Gioia Timpanelli What Makes a Child Lucky I love finding a sentence that succinctly says something I’ve spent many pages trying to say, and knowing that the next time I try to describe that same thing, I’ll need to find yet another way of doing it.
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bob or Man on Boat, Peter Markus on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“His knuckles are rivers.” –Peter Markus, Bob, or Man on Boat The simplicity of Markus is what draws me in, is what keeps me pinned to the chest of his books, waiting for the next image that will burrow inside, scratch the belly walls with drawings of stars & fish, bait me on & through [...]
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