Month: July 2008
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From the movie Miss Potter: There’s something quite delicious about writing the first words of a story.
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“A Writing Woman” by Gail Godwin is a really excellent piece — almost more a story than an essay or an advice column. (This is the fourth and final of the Atlantic Monthly articles I mentioned, BUT then there is their whole archive of literary interviews, plus a few articles I found elsewhere. It never…
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Wow, I’ve never read SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (though I have read a couple other books by Vonnegut) but what a passage: Billy Pilgrim padded downstairs on his blue and ivory feet. He went into the kitchen, where the moonlight called his attention to a half bottle of champagne on the kitchen table, all that was left…
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From Sarah’s LJ: we’re part of a generation, a suffering generation, with insufficient outlets, the past can no longer help us, we need to help ourselves. I mean, I guess that goes for every generation — you need to find your own anthems and bibles and whatever. I keep thinking the same thing. And I…
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Eat Drink Man Woman is a GREAT movie!! Very Asian, very cute, very real, very unexpected endings. I should keep it in mind for The Good Daughters revision… Aiya, that stupid revision is going to kill me.