Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing. “If I read a book [and] it…
“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”
Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author. “Everything in the world began with a…
“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it, I’d be ashamed of myself.”
Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 91, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…
“Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what’s happening around him.”
Happy birthday, Don DeLillo, maestro of maestros! 83, today! Meeting and three times speaking with Don DeLillo at last…