January 2010
32 posts
“We’ve lost Salinger. Wow.
So what happens next? Are his secrets...”
“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...”
– Hermann Hesse, “Wandering”
(via shatteredsunshine)
Letter To F. Scott Fitzgerald - Paris, March 31...
Dear Scott:
And you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I’d get maudlin about how swell you are. My God I’d like to see you. I got the two letters from the Roosevelt hotel and the cable about Vanity Fair this week. I’d decided to not write any articles stories to order serials etc. because I don’t work very easily…but you thought up...
You Can't Speed Read Literature
Interesting article by Evan Maloney of The Guardian
“The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is a lightning fast reader; blink and he’s probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour, which means he could have digested Jane Eyre during his lunch break and still had time to chew through half of Ulysses before returning to classes…Bloom is...
