http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/21593628638/steal-giveaway via ohonestly.tumblr.com i’ve been a fan of austin kleon’s work for a few years now, and i was eager to get my hands on his latest book, “steal like an artist”. billed as a “manifesto for creativity in the digital age”, it’s chock full of great quotes, illustrations, and advice on how to follow your interests and [...]
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what do you give the woman who has everything? mostly grief, it seems.
feel like writing today. feel like taking the day off and lying in the sun and stringing words together till they say exactly what i mean them to. feel like telling all the stories that run around half-clothed in my head like street urchins. while it’s lovely to be a writer, it can be terrifying [...]
one black face by a frown, furrowed: it’s raining.
it’s not about competitive typing; it’s not about recognising the quotes; it’s not about anything but keying in a random selection of passages from writers ranging from krakauer to tarantino, punctuation and all. what can i say, it’s ridiculously fun. oh, except for the annoying bit where you have to backspace and retype mistakes a [...]
just read this. atwood, man. she’s lovely.
irish proverb, apparently. and while anne enright seems to be doing just fine on the luck front, here are two essays and a short story to help you decide when/ where/ whether to read the gathering. what’s left of henrietta lacks, and my milk, two essays from the london review of books, circa 2000. and caravan, a tightly wound short [...]
from four weddings. and certainly not true of me. while i am pathologically late – to work, to movies, to flights, to meetings, etc. – there isn’t an ounce of greatness attached. my friends have learnt to deal with it (where are you? at the signal!). my employers have spared no opportunity to pull me up for it. [...]
yann martel on how life of pi was born. it’s the literary version of alanis’ thank you.
