The writing is a sustained, beautiful sleight-of-hand peppered with parenthetical rabbits popping out of hats. The delicate, ruthless details (asking the fading old man to disinter his dead wife's wedding dress), the moments of private meditation
March 16, 2012
Love this: Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort. More great life/creative ideas at the W+K London blog
March 7, 2012
"Dr James Pennebaker, though, defies expectations. A renowned researcher, author, and chair of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin, he blends down-to-earth bonhomie with a taste for Lanesborough Hotel martinis, and hones his brilliant mind with long-distance running."
March 2, 2012
Just do the things you love. Do what turns you on, say what you wish somebody else would say.
March 1, 2012
There doesn't seem to be much joy in being that kind of rich, even with the sweetener of fabulous jewels and $25,000 worth of couture every season.
February 23, 2012
Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times is my new literary crush. She writes acerbic, funny, insightful things about language and its (mis)-uses. Think George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language' for the 21st century.
February 19, 2012
The problem with looking for artistic validation in unhappiness, though, is that only the unhappiness is guaranteed; the art is still up to you.
February 8, 2012
You can find your identity in the damage that’s been done to you. Very, very dangerous. You find your identity in your wounds, in your scars, in the places where you’ve been beat up and you turn them into a medal. We all wear the things we’ve survived with some honour, but the real honour… [Read more…]
January 31, 2012
I’m a little bit hooked on Flavorwire – they turn up some amazing, inspiring creative content. Like this list of Henry Miller’s tips on how to be a writer. COMMANDMENTS 1. Work on one thing at a time until finished. 2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.” 3.… [Read more…]
March 18, 2012
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