January 2011
1 post
I have called an apartment on Summit Avenue East home for more than 3 years, since the summer of 2007. I have watched the parking lot across the street turn into a brand new park without a name, I have watched workmen strip apart and put back together the Starbucks next door, and I have watched people come and go through my courtyard an infinite number of times now. My footsteps feel more familiar...
December 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
10 posts
August 2009
2 posts
July 2009
4 posts
The Woodlands - Can We Stay?
June 2009
5 posts
“In a house besieged lived a man and a woman. From where they cowed in the...”
– A House Besieged, Lydia Davis
“She hated a mown lawn. Maybe that was because mow was the reverse of wom, the...”
– Lydia Davis
Coeur De Pirate - Comme des enfants
May 2009
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April 2009
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March 2009
16 posts
“One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the...”
– Shirley Jackson
Leaning Into The Afternoons
reluctantbuddha:
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames, its arms turning like a drowning man’s. I send out red signals across your absent eyes that smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse. You keep only darkness, my distant female, from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges. Leaning...
Heather McHugh - The Stranger →
I forgot about this Genius Awards write-up. It’s enjoyable.
“He came at night to each of us asleep
And trained us in the virtues we most...”
– Heather McHugh, The Father of the Predicaments
The Believer interviews Miranda July →
I just found this interview, and I like it a lot.
David Foster Wallace's struggle →
How Much Water Does Pasta Really Need? →
February 2009
37 posts
Ben Gibbard singing Indian Summer. Where are you,...
Books!
rainier:
Recommend books to me! Please? I’m currently ready A Town Like Alice, and don’t know what to read afterwards. Recommend Twilight or anything shitty like that and I will mentally pretend to stab you in the eyes.
Island by Alistair MacLeod. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link (this is a young adult novel you will...
Eck.
rainier:
This article grosses me out and has made my goal on feeding my future children mostly organic/farmer’s market foods even stronger. You can think of me as a snob all you want, but the health of yourself and your children should be a big deal, right? It is a big deal. What with studies showing hormones found in store bought meats produces an early onset of puberty in females, and now this?...
The theatrical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's... →
tylercoates:
(via Julie Klausner)
Neko Case in NY Times Magazine →
check out this awesome profile on Neko Case, the most awesome ex-Tacoman.