April 2019 – Page 4

“Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.”

Happy birthday, Leonora Carrington! Here are some quotes from the artist and writer. “There are things that are not sayable.…

R.I.P., Jonathan Baumbach. Here are some quotes from the writer. “The books of mine I like best are the ones…

With time and tempests everywhere To rafts of frail assumption cling The saintly and the insincere; Enraged phenomena bear down…

Happy birthday, Marguerite Duras. Here are some quotes from the writer: “A writer is a foreign country.” “Writing comes like…

Happy birthday, Andrei Tarkovsky! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “The allotted function of art is not, as is…

People say dog paws smell like Fritos, but yours smell like dew, so light yet full of wet dirt.…

Blenk, more and more troubled by the phrases appearing on his writing pad, went to the window, pulled back the…

Visible From Space In the crosswalk, a woman plods, swinging her arms briskly. One of many who act out…

Today is Samuel R. Delany Day! Celebrate by reading his writing: fiction, memoir, criticism, essays, and letters of the highest…