Gabriel Thibodeau |
I collect things from the interweb and post them here. I also write stories for this company, occasionally pretend to be other people, and act like a professional here. |
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NotesI have a crush on Ann Patchett right now.
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Notes"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."Kurt Vonnegut
(Source: martinaboone, via bookriot)
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Notes"Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps. … The Pulitzer Prize is our best chance as writers and readers and booksellers to celebrate fiction. This was the year we all lost."Ann Patchett, on the no-prize fiction Pulitzer in “And the Winner Isn’t” (via irisblasi)
Great article, though the suggestion of the Pulitzer Prize adopting a more Oscar-y stance is debatable. I’m on both sides of the debate, but it’s a debate nonetheless.
(via harperbooks)
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Every paragraph comes back with a different author, but I’m not complaining. Click here to get an inconsequential-yet-amusing analysis of your writing.
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Adrienne Rich, called by the New York Times “a poet of towering reputation and towering rage”, died on Tuesday at the age of 82. An extraordinarily passionate and respected poet and political figure with a voice that spoke often and loudly against the oppression of women — she will be remembered.
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I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body
We circle silently about the wreck
we dive into the hold….
We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to the scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.
Amazingly, this is the first of Rich’s poems that I’ve read. I obviously need to read much, much more. It’s an odd thing to discover an artist at her death. A beautiful thing, really, meeting a person by what she left behind.
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Notes Nathan Englander: Interviewed after winning England’s Costa Prize for Literature in late...
Interviewed after winning England’s Costa Prize for Literature in late January, the distinguished novelist Andrew Miller remarked that while he assumed that soon most popular fiction would be read on screen, he believed and hoped that literary fiction would continue to be read on…
The best pro-eBook argument I’ve read. Thanks, Nathan.
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NotesGeorge Saunders reads from Pastoralia
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NotesGeorge Saunders on MFA programs and the state of fiction.
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"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
Maya Angelou
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"It’s a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they’re figuring out what matters to them […] Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they’ve had fewer of them. It’s like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented."
John Green on why he writes for teens. More here.
