May 2013
1 post
April 2013
4 posts
when a difficult patron says they're "never coming...
whatshouldboxofficecallme:
March 2013
5 posts
“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further...”
– Jules Renard (via unypl)
February 2013
2 posts
January 2013
7 posts
when you get a discount offer for your theater in...
whatshouldboxofficecallme:
The Believer Logger: THE AGE OF CELEBRITY SEX... →
believermag:
In If You Won’t Read, Then Why Should I Write? (Penny-Ante Editions) Jarrett Kobek uses transcriptions of celebrity sex tapes to trace a narrative through decadent, post-internet celebrity in America. Beginning with Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s 1998 honeymoon tape,…
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
– Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
December 2012
8 posts
November 2012
6 posts
October 2012
6 posts
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin
My looks
whatshouldwecallme:
September 2012
5 posts
My copy of ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE STORIES IN A SMALL BOX just arrived from McSweeney’s, and it (and all copies, presumably) came with the most amazing note from Dave Eggers:
THE NEW RULES
I don’t know why it came down to me to tell you about this, but anyway, here goes: if you don’t buy at least ten books a year, you’ll be struck by lightning, or maybe a bus....
“None of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or...”
– Flaubert, MADAME BOVARY
August 2012
14 posts
“There is also that kind of reading which is just a looking at books. From time...”
– from “Notes from a Confession” by Sven Birkerts. Published in an anthology called READING IN BED.
I hope one day a random black-and-white photo of me pops up on one of those Tumblrs dedicated to cute guys with beards.
