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May 30, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Film, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Agnès Varda on Art, Life, Film, and More

Happy birthday, Agnès Varda! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker: “You have to invent life.” “Memory is like sand…

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May 27, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

John Barth on Writing, Fiction, “Passionate Virtuosity,” and More

  Happy birthday, John Barth! 92, today! Here are some quotes from the author:   “Self-knowledge is always bad news.”…

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May 26, 2022 - Featured, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Three Poems, by Martha Ronk

  dream: the dead returns while I waited listening to my own life behind the doorway— noises from the kitchen,…

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May 24, 2022 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Bob Dylan on Art, Writing, Poetry, Chaos, and More

  Happy birthday, Bob Dylan! 81, today! Lucky to have seen this trickster and consummate artist perform live many times…

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May 22, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Sun Ra on Music, Freedom, the Impossible, and More

  Happy Arrival Day, Sun Ra! Here are some quotes from the composer and musician:   “I think of myself…

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May 22, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Lucie Brock-Broido on Writing, Poetry, Wonderment, and More

  Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet.   “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.”…

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May 11, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Stanley Elkin on Writing, Sentences, Fiction, and More

  Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews:   “Make a thing that never…

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May 8, 2022January 15, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Thomas Pynchon on History, Truth, “Living Inside the System,” Death, and More.

  Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 85, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to…

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