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bartleby-company: Backlit photo showing the design of the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:45:13 -0400

bartleby-company:

Backlit photo showing the design of the Irving parachute.

Margaret Bourke-White for Life Magazine, 1937.

blue-voids: Andrew Pershin

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:15:24 -0400

blue-voids:

Andrew Pershin

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:19:26 -0400

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy—one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

Photo

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:36:55 -0400

thehystericalsociety: The boys in the band - 1920s

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:29:12 -0400

thehystericalsociety:

The boys in the band - 1920s

Photo

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:42:50 -0400

natgeofound: Dolphins seen from above jump in the wake of a...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:51:55 -0400

natgeofound:

Dolphins seen from above jump in the wake of a passing ship, 1918.
Photograph by W. C. Moore, National Geographic

nevver: You can’t get there from here

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:17:49 -0400

nevver:

You can’t get there from here

A Different Stripe: Renata Adler, back in print

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:33:45 -0400

A Different Stripe: Renata Adler, back in print:

nyrbclassics:

I was lying on a Mediterranean boat deck, on a windless day. It was odd that I should be there, but no more odd than my work, or the slums, or the places where people do find themselves as their luck shifts. A girl of eighteen was taking the sun with great seriousness. The rest of our party were swimming, or playing cards below, or drinking hard. The girl was blond, shy, and laconic. After two hours of silence, in that sun, she spoke. ‘When you have a tan,’ she said, ‘what have you got?’

Video

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:28:42 -0400

nevver: Circling the Sun, Comet Pan-STARRS

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:02:14 -0400

nevver:

Circling the Sun, Comet Pan-STARRS

And your mouth was making words but there was nobody there

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:06:00 -0500

And your mouth was making words but there was nobody there

My money’s on Amelia Gray for this Friday’s Literary...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:31:39 -0500

My money’s on Amelia Gray for this Friday’s Literary Death Match:

http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/march-8-2013-at-awp.html

Photo

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:30:48 -0500

Sometimes when I give the cat a fresh bowl of water he looks at...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:23:00 -0500

Sometimes when I give the cat a fresh bowl of water he looks at me like, “That’s it? I’m so disappointed in you.”

Maybe I’m projecting. It’s been a rough month.

“The attention to the language, structure, patterns of imagery and metaphor in a growing piece...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:56:39 -0500

“The attention to the language, structure, patterns of imagery and metaphor in a growing piece often rewards us with richer characters, more interesting plots and stories, than we can generate ourselves in our first superficial attempts. This is why we can’t summarize good fiction, any more than we can summarize poetry. This is why we can’t, usually, write well to an outline. And why, no matter what we think we mean to do with a certain piece, we are continually surprised and, if we are attentive and lucky, led to something more interesting than we knew we knew.”

- Andrea Barrett talking about the process of writing “Out Here,” one of my very favorite short stories.

"I just know from experience that my instincts are better than my cerebration. Celebrate good times,..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:40:50 -0500

“I just know from experience that my instincts are better than my cerebration. Celebrate good times, come on!”

- George Saunders, from his recent Gchat with The Paris Review

Best thing…ever.

Rosina, Capri - John Singer Sargent Spent a long time staring at...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:14:01 -0500

Rosina, Capri - John Singer Sargent

Spent a long time staring at this in the MFA last weekend

contemporary-art-blog: Wilhelm Sasnal artist from Poland,...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:11:23 -0500

contemporary-art-blog:

Wilhelm Sasnal artist from Poland, Untitled (After Metinides), 2003
Contemporary-Art-Blog

Truth

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:49:10 -0500

Truth