Paris, New York & Books

Climates by André Maurois

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:22:54 -0400

Othello, Phedre, Tolstoy’s Kreuzer’s Sonata, Dostoievsky’s Eternal Husband, Proust’Swann’s Way or...

blogueusemaman: Ce qui me vient immédiatement en tête quand...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:54:33 -0400

blogueusemaman:

Ce qui me vient immédiatement en tête quand j’entends une phrase qui commence par “Oui mais vous les femmes…”

Julian Lage Alameda (by mastercbr)

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:03:00 -0500

Julian Lage Alameda (by mastercbr)

Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:43:00 -0500

Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War: While major US publishers now block libraries’...

kaffeinkatmandu: Woman in Tableaux [middle]: My Life, chapter...

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:39:21 -0500

kaffeinkatmandu:

Woman in Tableaux

[middle]: My Life, chapter 3

— Vivre sa vie, Jean-Luc Godard

A street, thick-shadowed and mostly empty, with record shop, apartment, cafè, theater, is no real match for innocence. What she sees on the screen burns to the bone — Jeanne D’Arc in a fit of perfection or grief, not able to bend, not willing to stop, can’t help but question everything she touches, everything she wants — body and soul, body and soul. She gives herself only to herself, and finds that deliverance, sometimes, is no deliverance at all. You may believe in lines, but there aren’t any. Truth is nothing more than spirals of beauty and lust and essence and moment. Running like mad over the stiff mechanics of all things opposite, she lives simply because she says she lives, her words finding her at last — or should I say “at beginning” — finding her where she has always been.

[Excerpted from: Woman in Tableaux by Sam Rasnake; originally published at UCity Review.]

W. W. Norton: Harper Lee: Christmas To Me

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:38:37 -0500

W. W. Norton: Harper Lee: Christmas To Me: wwnorton: Several years ago, I was living in New York...

juliettetang: “In the dry goods store weeks ran into months and...

Mon, 09 May 2011 23:14:03 -0400

juliettetang:

“In the dry goods store weeks ran into months and months into years as Alice waited and dreamed of her lover’s return.” -Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

To My Doppelganger

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:06:25 -0400

wwnorton: You were always the careful one,who’d tiptoe into passionand cut it in half with your...

The Death of the Book

Wed, 04 May 2011 15:03:01 -0400

lareviewofbooks: Ben Ehrenreich Image: Dirty Book #1 © Tom Benedek 2011 Pity the book. It’s dead...

tatteredcover: Garage door trompe...

Tue, 03 May 2011 11:25:12 -0400

tatteredcover:

Garage door trompe l’oeil

lifeofliterature:

WANT!

juliettetang: “There is one quality which unites all great and...

Sun, 01 May 2011 21:45:43 -0400

juliettetang:

“There is one quality which unites all great and perdurable writers, you don’t NEED schools and colleges to keep ‘em alive. Put them out of the curriculum, lay them in the dust of libraries, and once in every so often a chance reader, unsubsidized and unbribed, will dig them up again, put them in the light again, without asking favours.” -Ezra Pound, ABCs of Reading

tatteredcover: Marilyn Monroe reading: luxtheconqueror: First...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:12:30 -0400

tatteredcover:

Marilyn Monroe reading:

luxtheconqueror:

First shot I think I’ve seen of Marilyn Monroe that I want to put up in my apartment.

"In Egypt, libraries were called the soul’s remedy treasure because, in there, it was possible to..."

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:11:09 -0400

“In Egypt, libraries were called the soul’s remedy treasure because, in there, it was possible...

A free app for literary festival

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:03:17 -0400

As the LA Times Festival of books is opening today, the newspaper indicates that: the fest-goers...

kaffeinkatmandu: “I had been right, I was still right, I was...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:36:12 -0400

kaffeinkatmandu:

“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn’t done that. I hadn’t done this thing but I had done another. And so?”

-Albert Camus, The Stranger.

(photo via Juliette Tang)

Photo

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:54:32 -0400

greatbooksgreatquotes: By Debbie

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:06:15 -0400

greatbooksgreatquotes:

By Debbie

Photo

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:05:10 -0400

Quote, Unquote

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:02:10 -0400

writeplacewritetime: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under...

tatteredcover: How to read and float at the same...

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:00:58 -0400

tatteredcover:

How to read and float at the same time:

unchiffonier:

animated stereo. Relaxing in the Dead Sea, early 20th c.

by Thieophene Guy