May 2013
19 posts
“I had just broken up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment in Oakland...”
– Links I Like by Zoë Ruiz (via therumpus)
Team ab workouts
fuckyeahwomensrugby:
“Hodor.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
“If you have to treat me differently because you heard I’m a feminist, you...”
“I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.”
– Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (via nomoreundead)
“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
– Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red (via ledesespoirlamiroir)
“Going through a drawer I found the submissions/applications log I’ve kept off...”
– Cheryl Strayed | Facebook
Cheryl knows.
(via therumpus)
The poor production assistant, trying desperately...
lifeinpublishing:
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Kindness- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More →
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the l…
“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I...”
– Flannery O’Connor, on her first brush with celebrity. (via onemoresalutetovanity)
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
April 2013
10 posts
The Electric Typewriter: 10 Excellent Essays →
roxanegay:
tetw:
As Chosen by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay, author, essayist, editor (at Pank, The Rumpus and Bluestem), and professor, has picked 10 of her favourite essays for us. As she rightly says, “their excellence speaks for itself”:
The Love of My Life by Cheryl Strayed Notes From…
Some essays you maybe want to read.
wwnorton:
`and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice `without metadata or user comments?’
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
– Margaret Atwood (via smelltheseafeelthesky)
“Embracing a love ethic means that we utilize all the dimensions of love—‘care,...”
– bell hooks, All About Love (via howtobesingleinasmalltown)
Longreads: Our Longreads Member Pick: Symmetrical... →
longreads:
This week’s Member Pick is “Symmetrical Universe,” an essay by physicist Alan Lightman, published in the latest issue of Orion magazine. In it, Lightman explores the wonder of nature and the principles that guide its design—helping to answer questions like why a honeycomb is a…
March 2013
4 posts
February 2013
11 posts
“What the left has been too timid to say is this: it is obvious that we do (and...”
– Katie Ryder: The Truth About Religious Freedom and the ACA - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf, To the lighthouse (via murmurrs)
“But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model...”
– Zadie Smith (via lyras)
“It’s simple to wake from sleep with a stranger,
dress, go out, drink coffee,...”
– Adrienne Rich, part III of “Origins and History of Consciousness” in The Dream of a Common Language (via abraidoffrostandfelt)
“What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other’s...”
– Adrienne Rich (via hellohamradio)
January 2013
8 posts
the moons of jupiter: "The Secret" by Denise... →
themoonsofjupiter:
Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. I who don’t know the secret wrote the line. They told me (through a third person) they had found it but not what it was not even what line it was. No doubt by now, more than a week later, they have forgotten the…
