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 […]
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, […]
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’.”
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
