Archive: 'Books'

It’s all so clear now

Barry Gifford:
David once explained the effect he was after: “You know that feeling you get when you’ve just gotten back from the dry cleaners a pair of slacks, Dacron slacks, and you reach your hand in a pocket, and you feel those fuzzy sandwiches with your fingers? Well, that’s the feeling I’m looking for.” I […]

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Frank, Ray and Jacues

Coming in at #1 on the list of things I didn’t think I was going to find randomly on the internet today is Frank Black interviewing Ray Bradbury and talking about Jacques Tati.

Frank Black: The one filmmaker who has been able to make me cry is Jaques Tati.
Ray Bradbury: Well, I knew him very well, […]

Monday, July 18th, 2005

Now that’s a… compliment

In a story on the newly-discovered Sappho poem: “On hearing one of Sappho’s poems sung, the sixth century BC Greek ruler Solon, a contemporary of hers, asked for someone to teach him the song ‘because I want to learn it and die’.”

Monday, June 27th, 2005

The Demnark Kind

“Chicago appealed to Eugenides and his wife, the photographer Karen Yamauchi, when they decided to return to the States partly because they have a 6-year-old daughter now. “I view it as a Denmark kind of place. Cold, well-run–a clean, beautiful, pristine city where you can have a nice life and bring up kids and not […]

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Extremely annoying and incredibly pretentious

Digested read - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer:
“I’m nine years old and I’m an inventor, computer consultant, astronomer, historian, lepidopterist, and I write to Stephen Hawking. I’m no ordinary boy, but the creation of a writer who’s trying too hard. That’s why you’ll find doodles, photographs, pages with just a few […]

Monday, June 13th, 2005

Welcome to the second half

Chekhov said: “Fledgling authors frequently should do the following; bend the notebook in half and tear off the first half … you’ll only have to change the beginning of the second half a little bit and the story will be utterly comprehensible. Everything that has no direct relation to the story must be ruthlessly thrown […]

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

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