January 2012
50 posts
Gender bias at NPR — and what it reveals about the... →
gwendabond:
The truth is that major publishers put out more books written by men than women. Print publications write more about books written by men. NPR discusses more books written by men. Unsurprisingly, the best seller list is dominated by books written by men: men outnumbered women 25 to 11 on last year’s number-one-best-seller fiction charts. And to be honest, I’m not innocent of...
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via michelledean)
Boy I hope this actually works. I go to bed at ten like an old lady to get up & write, then suffer occasional paroxysms of terror about how boring I’ve become.
Letter From A Birmingham Jail, by MLK, Jr.
So much of this essay is still so damningly true.
jenvolant:
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the…Ku Klux Klan, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…who...
“I made a rule for myself: I would not include anything that human beings had not...”
– Margaret Atwood: Haunted by The Handmaid’s Tale
Incredible article on what went into the making of the Handmaid’s Tale.
“3. Don’t Overpromote Yourself on Social Media
This is actually good...”
– Ten Bits of Advice Writers Should Stop Giving Aspiring Writers
Nick makes the internet bearable for a little while, again.
R.I.P.
“I fully allow that there are major upsides to being a male author. First, men...”
– This piece is agonizingly sexist overall, but this paragraph demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what Weiner is even arguing. He argues that Weiner should stop complaining about women being afforded less literary prestige because women’s work sells better, at least if it’s...
“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
– THE HEARING TRUMPET, Leonora Carrington
“Indeed I do have a short gray beard which conventional people would find...”
– THE HEARING TRUMPET, Leonora Carrington
Yes.
quinnisgay:
The Ink Spots | I Don’t Want...
“Literature is sacred. It is as sacred to me as anything I know. I suspect that...”
– Tom Bissell, from his 2003 essay for The Believer, anthologized and published in the book Magic Hours out this April and available here. The essay is much larger and better than this very good paragraph, and has had me making sort-of-exclamatory noises through my nose. But this passage in particular...
“9. Keep your guitar in a dark place
When you’re not playing your guitar,...”
– Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing
Albert Einstein
jenvolant:
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. One is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
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when someone says: "both sides are at fault"
sexgenderbody:
they usually mean: “I agree with the asshole.”
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
Bits of lasagna were still mushed into her hair, and Brigid was drawing a picture of her sister’s head on fire. Sinead’s curly hair stuck out in all directions, like she’d been hit by lightning. Brigid added her parents to the picture as little stick figures, off in the distance. They didn’t do anything about the flames.
Brigid felt bewildered and hurt by the lasagna bombing. She did, ...
