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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, 2022 - 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, 2022 - 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, 2022 - 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, 2022 - 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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April 30, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Annie Dillard on Art, Life, Reading, and Writing

Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 77, today! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Write as if you were dying. At…

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April 28, 2022 - Books, Featured, Interview, Reading, Writing

To Care or Not to Care: An Interview with Boris Groys

By JC Holburn As the invasion began in Ukraine and all manner of opinions gushed in, I kept wondering— “What…

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April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 - Letter from the Editor, Reading, Writing

A Manifesto for Living a Radically Imaginative Life

Inspired by Ai Weiwei’s manifesto for life and creativity, which I chanced upon this morning, I drafted this manifesto for…

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April 19, 2022 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Rikki Ducornet on Art, Life, Reading, Writing, the Imagination, and More

  Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 79, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet in my podcast with…

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April 11, 2022 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Herstory Manifesto as a Mazy Cloudiness

Or, Epic Outtakes from The Maze of Transparencies: Penelope and Ulysses, a Virtual Love Story By Karen An-hwei Lee  …

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May 24, 2022

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May 22, 2022

Stanley Elkin on Writing, Sentences, Fiction, and More

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