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April 15, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

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April 13, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You’re on Earth, there’s no cure for that!”

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Birth was the death of him.” “Words are the…

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April 12, 2019August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

An Oblation, by Tobias Carroll

  No surprise Trina had spent half her inheritance on something abandoned. Years before, she’d exchanged chains of emails with…

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April 11, 2019 - Birthday, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Each moment is a place / you’ve never been.”

Happy birthday, Mark Strand! Here are some quotes from his work. “Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There…

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April 11, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Reviewing Reviewing: Ethos and Praxis, by Tyrone Williams

I’m going to talk about the topic of reviewing books of poetry from both autobiographical and professional points of view,…

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April 10, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Reading, Travel, Writing

On the Art of Wearing Yourself Out, by Brian Kiteley

  I drew maps and mazes when I was a kid. Endless maps, some very particular, some just rough outlines,…

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April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Excerpt, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”

Happy birthday, Charles Baudelaire! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Always be a poet, even in prose.” “The beautiful…

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April 9, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

From On Solar Physiology, by Will Alexander

I am invaded by blankness where a curious Portuguese erupts where its vowels transmix with sub-components of English marked by…

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April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape

By Norman Lock   “But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to…

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April 7, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme! Here are some quote from his writing. “[T]here is the pressure on language from contemporary culture…

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