May 2013
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“When you’re in the middle of [writing] a novel and enjoying a novel,...”
– Zadie Smith
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“If I’d taken on The Dark Tower I would’ve become Russell Crowe in A...”
– Damon Lindelof to Alex Pappademas at Grantland
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I had so much fun writing for Vulture tonight. I’ve been doing this nightblogger thing for eighteen months and still have such a blast. Thankful every day that site keeps me around.
Anyway. I hope you like Rick Moranis: The Novel: The Blog Post.
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“I’ve never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think...”
– John Updike. Discovered in a new book called Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. It’s as cool as it sounds.
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“[The Great Gatsby] is the only book I have read so often despite failing—in the...”
– New York mag book critic Kathryn Schulz in her luminescent takedown of Gatsby and its golden reputation. Glad I’m not alone. My first time, junior year of high school, was woeful, but I blamed it on the life-changing Catcher in the Rye coming directly beforehand. Second time, in college, as an...
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“By the time I was 11, 12, I’d kind of absorbed the idea that you should spend a...”
– My favorite quote from that Owen King/Joe Hill interview, something Joe said. Such a cool insight into what it’s like not only being a child of Stephen and Tabitha King, but just being a child who thinks they’d like to be a writer. There’s such an insistence in your head that...
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“Suddenly I wasn’t trying to fix things, but I was inventing them. My...”
– Author-to-be Ted Thompson on the experience of finding a way back into the novel that’s been killing you for months and months. Go read the full account of the eight years it took to write his first novel for a fuller, beautifully written picture.
April 2013
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What do you think of this new Iron & Wine...
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“The narrative of the West as enlightened protector of freedoms lost ground to a...”
– Mark Sundeen, The Man Who Quit Money. Check it out. Stellar.
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Figured out the purpose of Vine. →
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“Last season was the first time I sat down and wrote the whole thing. When I...”
– Louie C.K., in the New York Times.
“This can be anything you want.”
(via stephenfalk)
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“There is no doubt that a good story has always mattered, and the great novelists...”
– Stanley Kubrick, deftly parsing out the merit-gulf between highbrow/lowbrow and “serious”/”genre” fiction.
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“I don’t personally feel that I’ve lost my fire. There is a difference between...”
– Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba. I’ve ranted about the band losing their fire before, so I spoke to Skiba and Andriano about it, fairly directly, for Billboard. Two of the most honest interviews I’ve been a part of—even if you’re not a fan, there’s real insight into aging...
March 2013
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A wonderful conversation I had with... →
She wrote Olive Kitteridge and Amy and Isabelle. And now The Burgess Boys. It’s tremendous. She’s lovely. One of my favorite authors.
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The Life Lessons of [the awful film known as]... →
[Harmony Korine’s] ultimate spring-break fantasy is a vision of murder camp—and of “black camp”—and he doesn’t make any effort to distinguish the two. The very mainspring of the movie is his stereotypical and reductive view of black life as one of drug dealing and gang violence. - Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Much more productive and astute than my tweeted gut reactions that the movie...
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GOALS:
-Never write a novel where any reviewer will invoke the phrase “of our time” or “for our times” or “these times.”
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"This doesn't change anything" →
yellow-turbanfacing:
but you know
saying “why dont you stfu bitching about things on the internet isnt solving anything!!1!!”
saying that is just aggression
because what I am doing is getting voice heard, speaking out against oppression and discrimination and utilizing my right and ability to speak out when so many like me have been silenced and continue to be silenced today
what you are...
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kayleybug asked: FINISHED! I don't know what to make of it but I actually cannot imagine another ending that would work. It's not a perfect ending but it's the only ending...if that makes sense... I'm still letting it all sink in right now
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“There were slave revolts in the antebellum South. Someday, perhaps, someone will...”
– Hendrik Hertzberg on “Django Unchained” and the context of slavery: http://nyr.kr/W8J4Gy
Interesting. Wish the piece was twice as long + kept going where the last graf leaves off. 