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Archives for 2012

Goodbye, summer

September 4, 2012

Weegee - Coney island Beach

Weegee, “Coney Island Beach” (1940)

Labor Day weekend. Always a melancholy time. Goodbye, summer.

Filed Under: Photography Tagged With: New York, Weegee

Picasso: I am always doing what I cannot do

August 29, 2012

I am always doing what I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso (via)

Filed Under: Art, Creativity, Writing Tagged With: Picasso, quotes for writers

Elmore Leonard on bad movies and good writing

August 23, 2012

Elmore Leonard interviewed by James Parker of The Atlantic.

Filed Under: Writers, Writing Tagged With: books, Elmore Leonard, video

Quote of the Day

August 21, 2012

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Charles Edward Montague (via)

Filed Under: Odds & Ends Tagged With: quotes, war

Bookplates are back

August 19, 2012

Bookplate

The last bookplate giveaway was so popular, we blew through my supply in just a few weeks. But a new shipment just arrived, and this bookplate is even nicer than the last — beautiful letterpress printing on thick paper. Even better than a plain old signed book. And your showoff friends who read the ebook on their fancy iPads will be sick with envy. (A photo of the full bookplate is here.)

For those of you who missed it the first time around, this is just my way of saying thank you to readers who can’t get to a reading to have their books signed in person. There’s no charge. Just send me your snail mail address and any special inscription you might want (“For Uncle Marvin on his 73rd birthday…”). Reminder: for security reasons, don’t post your mailing address in the comments section. Send it to me in an email (you can use the form here).

Thanks again, everyone.

Filed Under: My Books Tagged With: bookplates, Defending Jacob

Lartigue again

August 14, 2012

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), “Etretat” (July 1907) (detail) (full image here)

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: Lartigue

Lartigue

July 28, 2012

Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986). “The ZYX takes off… Piroux, Zissou, Georges Louis and Dédé try to fly, too, Rouzat, September 1910.” Silver gelatine print, around 1965, 60,1 x 74 cm. (Via Galerie Berinson)

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: airplanes, Lartigue

Orwell: Good Bad Books

July 25, 2012

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

Read the whole essay here. See also: Orwell on Why I Write.

Filed Under: Books, Recommended Reading Tagged With: George Orwell

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