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“It isn’t for anything; a poem is country, and it needs you to keep walking it,...”
– Mark Tredinnick, from “Eclogues” (via the-final-sentence)
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“I like it when one is not certain of what one sees.”
– Saul Leiter + + (via mythologyofblue)
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Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
May 19th
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“When we started kissing, I was too hesitant, and [director] John [Krokidas]...”
– Daniel Radcliffe, on shooting Kill Your Darlings (via bbrando) I love this quote to a truly indecent degree. (via wintergrey)
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“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...”
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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“Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark...”
– Tobias Wolff, from “Bullet in the Brain”, published in the collection The Night in Question (via the-final-sentence)
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“Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you...”
– Daniell Koepke (via touchpulp)
May 17th
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A Workout For Book Nerds
epicreads: All you need for this workout is a stack of hardcovers and some yarn or rope to tie them together! Workout #1: The Book Curl Workout #2: The Book Up Workout #3: The Brunch (Book Crunch) - Just like brunch this can be done alone or with a friend! Cool Down
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“I could say that each novel has been written for somebody, to convince somebody...”
– Manuel Puig (via theparisreview)
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failedblackwoman: IDK how casting Bagels Cucumbers as Khan isn’t disrespectful to Gene Roddenberry tbh.  That man fought networks tooth and nail to have people of different races on his show. He fought long and hard to have an interracial kiss on TV.  My grandmother does not like Sci-Fi, but you better believe her ass was watching Star Trek, you know why? Because it was one of the few places...
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captainmarvel: sometimes i watch movies and think yeah this is good but what if you replaced all these dudes with ladies wouldn’t that be great
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"The Average Fourth Grader Is A Better Poet Than... →
tetraghost: commovente: While in graduate school at the University of Houston, I supplemented my income by working as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS). I was with WITS for three years, during which I visited third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms, and worked with groups of students visiting the Menil museum of art, the Houston Historical Society, and the Houston...
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“Writing: a way of leaving no space for death, of pushing back forgetfulness, of...”
– Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing and other Essays” (via awritersruminations)
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graceebooks: men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need
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