Monthly Archives: June 2007
can literature effect social change?
A short excerpt from an exchange with my correspondent in Chicago: Ariel: can literature effect any social change? i asked my grandfather once. he might be the wisest man i know. he said, turgenev, fathers and sons. i kind of … Continue reading
dance break: rules & regulations
Thanks to James for sending this along to me.
Filed under dance break
ok, see you in a bit
An excerpt from a conversation via gmail chat with my correspondent in Rome, Thiago: me: there’s a korean boyband named god they’re pretty thiago: haha excellent speaking of asian i met this italian japanese 6’2 gorgeous kid not sure what … Continue reading
I couldn’t tell them it was all in my head
Fame and money don’t change you. They unmask you. >You need to stay the person you were who wrote the books that got you where you are. They would ask if they could see the book, and I would say, … Continue reading
nuclear proliferation is the real global warming
There’s a craziness that protects it. Why save the world from global warming if you’re just going to set it on fire? The excellent Jonathan Schell, after reading tonight at the Wesleyan Writers Conference from his new book on the … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse
And then they were never seen again
Sabina: We should live there. [Points to large dilapidated cape house off Route 130 in Connecticut]. Me: There? Sabina: Did you see it? Me: “And then they were never seen again.” Sabina: “I think they live outside Bridgeport now? They … Continue reading
saturdays are for dolphins
Seven days. I wondered what I did wrong. Am I too easy? Am I a slut? Did he not like it? He finally called me and told me I was neither. It was the six years–or at least, that’s what … Continue reading
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