April 2011
recordofmytroubles asked: hi
could you give a list of some amount of books (20, 50?) by current authors that you think should be read and a bit of why?
Hope all is well
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
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Parts of Housekeeping I Liked:
The idea of even writing about Marilynne Robinson’s writing in a way that doesn’t do it and anyone who reads this a disservice is a far greater task than I am ready for. Instead here are some things I doggy-eared. Or here are some pages I did and now, months later, I am not sure what I meant to point to: pp. 56-57. I can’t type it all. There were reports that things were...
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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“After the freeze-drying, they’re rock-solid, completely hardened and much...”
– I learned a lot doing this Q&A.  
Apr 27th
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“Ask me what I wanted to be then and I would have said a vessel, a landscape, to...”
– Meaghan O’Connell, Coming & Crying (via 52hearts) hope everyone knows i didn’t mean it in a good way :( also that this paragraph needs about half the clauses.
Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 22nd
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“Mac gets requests frequently for human freeze-drying. Though it’s rarely...”
– comment from the director of Furever on her Kickstarter project.
Apr 21st
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Apr 18th
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three genuine questions you searched for to get...
who bought the rights of uno card game from merle the inventer what does “he’s wired in” mean is life hard in greece now?
Apr 14th
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The Kickstarter Blog: Creator Q&A: Dave & Dave... →
kickstarter: If you haven’t heard of East Coast Dave & West Coast Dave and their heralded magic bean project called “Coffee Joulies,” then you, sir or madam, do not read gadget blogs… Sometimes a project is so successful that you just have to ask the harder questions.
Apr 14th
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Apr 10th
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“I’m here to restore a sense of wonder, a sense of poetry, and a sense of...”
– omg.
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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HOT! LIVE! AUTHORS!
kickstarter: Canteen Magazine is a mag on a mission — a mission to objectify authors. Or celebrate them. Celebrate them by objectifying them? Think Tao Lin meets Tiger Beat, a Stephen Elliott centerfold stuck with bubble gum on your closet door. Or Deb Olin Unferth taped on your fridge, reminding you to keep the dream alive in time for bikini season. 16 authors, 16 photographers, and one...
Apr 1st
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