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One Man's Take on the Best Reads of the 2000s

Christopher Porter wrote 1 week ago: So, you should probably know these things about me before you read this list: I am cantankerous, gen … more →

Tags: Books, Dave Eggers, Charles Bowden, C. E. Morgan, Alison Bechdel, Best of the decade, Bohumil Hrabal, Jon Krakauer, randall kennedy

Silences

agallix wrote 3 weeks ago: An excerpt from Tillie Olsen’s Silences (1962): Literary history and the present are dark with … more →

Tags: phantom books, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jane Austen, Jennie Gerhardt, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Anne Porter, melville

The Death of Isaac Babel3 comments

amoslanka wrote 5 months ago: I’ve just finished reading one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read, The History o … more →

Tags: Life, Books, History, Portland, Love, God, death, Josh Ritter, Silence

Bruno Schulz: A Writer To Remember

bluesmokeofparadise wrote 10 months ago: A few years ago, I took a class on modern Jewish writers. The Jewish part of that description was im … more →

Tags: Creativity, Imagination, Writers, Beauty, Memory, Literature, Art, Courage, writing

Against Beach Reading6 comments

ohkrapp wrote 1 year ago: People are self-conscious about what they read. Not everyone, of course, as you might have noticed t … more →

Tags: autodidact, Books, Aesthetics + Philo, Summer Reading List, Beach Reading, standard of taste, Literary criticism, David Denby, hemginway

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The Writer's Table

Dave Lovely wrote 2 years ago: My work, whatever form it may take, is seen as mischief, as lawlessness, as an accident. But that’s … more →

Tags: Quotes, writing, Osip Mandelstam, Philip Guston

The Writer's Table

Dave Lovely wrote 2 years ago: My work, whatever form it may take, is seen as mischief, as lawlessness, as an accident. But that’s … more →

Tags: writing, Quotes, Osip Mandelstam, Philip Guston


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