Entries from September 2009

Sep. 8, 2009

William Manchester’s struggle

A futile, agonizing 3-year struggle to write an account of the JFK assassination.

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Sep. 2, 2009

A few links

Random bits found floating around on the web today: Nabokov and Trilling on YouTube; D.G. Myers five best novels of the decade; Joseph Epstein’s advice to writers to “make it look easy”; and Red Sox outfielder Joey Gathright jumping over cars. That’s right, jumping over cars.

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Sep. 1, 2009

George Herbert: “Church Monuments”

…flesh is but the glass which holds the dust / That measures all our time; which also shall / Be crumbled into dust….

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Sep. 1, 2009

Henry Ford: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted”

“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said, ‘A faster horse.’” — Henry Ford (via) Follow your own vision. Do not write what you think readers want. They do not know what they want until you show it to them.

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Sep. 1, 2009

Edmund Wilson Regrets…

A postcard from the pre-blog era

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