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January 16, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The language of literature must be…the language of transgression, a rupture of individual systems, a shattering of psychic oppression.”

  Happy birthday, Susan Sontag! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be…

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January 15, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists…”

  Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.!   “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the…

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January 14, 2020 - Birthday, Contest, Event, News, Reading, Writing

Tonight: Big Other’s 10th Anniversary Celebration at #YeahYouWrite!

  Celebrate Big Other’s 10th Anniversary tonight at #YeahYouWrite, one of NYC’s best literary events! Held in a “dark and…

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January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“As far as language goes, we have to live contentedly, and discontentedly, with our own, making it do what it can and, also, a little of what it can’t.“

  Happy birthday, Lorrie Moore! 63, today!   “I try to start a project with at least a small sense…

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January 13, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“[T]he most important things in our intimate lives can’t be discussed with strangers, except in books.”

  Happy birthday, Edmund White! 79, today!   “[T]here’s more to contemporary literature than American coffee-cup realism.”   “The novel…

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January 12, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

  Happy birthday, Haruki Murakami! 71, today! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “All words I use to…

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January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 - Birthday, Music, Quotes, Reading

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.”

  Happy birthday, David Bowie! Here are some quotes from the musician:   “I’m a born librarian with a sex…

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January 7, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“You need the art in order to love the life.”

  Happy birthday, Nicholson Baker! 63, today! Here are quotes from the writer:   “I woke up thinking a very…

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January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

  Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston! Here are some quotes from the author:   “If writers were too wise, perhaps…

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January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Poetry, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.”

  Happy birthday, C. D. Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer:   “I believe in a hardheaded art,…

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January 17, 2020

“The language of literature must be…the language of transgression, a rupture of individual systems, a shattering of psychic oppression.”

January 16, 2020

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists…”

January 15, 2020

Tonight: Big Other’s 10th Anniversary Celebration at #YeahYouWrite!

January 14, 2020

“As far as language goes, we have to live contentedly, and discontentedly, with our own, making it do what it can and, also, a little of what it can’t.“

January 13, 2020
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