April 2012
1 post
“Write a ripping three, four, seven minute scene which moves the story along, and...”
– David Mamet
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
8 posts
1 tag
January 2012
4 posts
A poem my friend saw and sent me...
I like slippers gold
I like oysters cold
And my garden of mixed flowers
And the sky full of flowers
And traffic in the streets
And Maillard’ sweets
And Bendel’s clothes
And Nat Lewis hose
And Tappe’s window arrays
And crystal fixtures
And my pictures
And Walt Disney cartoons
And colored balloons.
December 2011
12 posts
1 tag
“It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959...”
– Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died.”
“Are the following sentences the beginnings of essays or of short stories?”
– James Wood reviews John Jeremiah Sullivan’s “Pulphead.”
November 2011
17 posts
Get Ready...
Thessaly: I have a new girl crush.
Jenna: ME TOO! You go first.
Thessaly: Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Jenna: Ooh. Yes.
Thessaly: Who is yours?
Jenna: RIHANNA
1 tag
Stardust
Stardust is
the hardest thing
to hold out for.
You must
make of yourself
a perfect plane—
something still
upon which
something settles—
something like
sugar grains on
something like
metal, but with
none of the chill.
It’s hard to explain.
—Kay Ryan
1 tag
“Instinctively, when dictators are toppled, we invade their castles and expose...”
– Jon Lee Anderson on the last days of Muammar Qaddafi.
“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
– Czeslaw Milosz
1 tag
1 tag
Things I Miss About New York
1. A loud restaurant.
2. Momofuku everything.
3. Speed.
4. Ordering a nice drink at a regular bar.
5. Taxis.
6. Impulse shopping.
7. People watching.
8. Museums. Galleries. Book parties.
9. Chinatown.
10. Crackheads.
October 2011
8 posts
