January 2012
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WatchMaurice Sendak, “I don’t write for children. I write, and somebody says, that’s for children.” Grim Colberty tales is a hilarious chat w/ Sendak and Colbert.
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December 2011
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“He wrote about everything from Charles Dickens to Iran, and wasn’t afraid of...”
– We’ll miss you, Hitch.
November 2011
4 posts
“What do I care for first or last editions? I have never read one of my own...”
– D.H. Lawrence (via booksmatter)
WatchEleven Madison Park, one of New York’s few restaurants to be awarded three Michelin stars, unveils its long-awaited “Eleven Madison Park Cookbook” today, on 11/11/11. Kitchen warriors will be pleased to hear that chef Daniel Humm and general manager Will Guidara haven’t toned down the recipes a bit. Be prepared to track down black truffles, edible gold dust, liquid nitrogen, and whole lobes of...
October 2011
121 posts
“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
– Annie Proulx (via theparisreview)
It's #YAWednesday! Fire up twitter and share a rec...
“The Late Great Creature by Brock Brower
Bringing to mind Tim Burton’s “Ed...”
– Required reading - m.NYPOST.com
I’d recommend you just buy a case of them to give out to trick-or-treaters.
WatchMagic runs through all of Alice Hoffman’s novels, so we weren’t all that surprised to hear that she’s big on “The Twilight Zone.” But when the bestselling author of “The Dovekeepers” paid a visit to the Bookish office, she also revealed the special debt she owes to “Buffy The Vampire Slayer.”
(via Alice Hoffman: How Buffy Saved My Life | Bookish Staff Blog)
How to Write an Important Novel
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“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
- P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
(via wwnorton)
“Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.”
– Anne Enright (from this video interview with Bookish)
“Writing, to me, was a kind of sanity.”
– Anne Enright, via Bookish
WatchBooker Prize winner Anne Enright returns this month with The Forgotten Waltz, a wry novel of passion and infidelity. She came all the way from Ireland to Bookish HQ and gave us insights about working in television, writing fiction, and which one put her flat on her back.
(via Anne Enright on Writing, TV, and Her “Very Private Breakdown” | Bookish Staff Blog)
“I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again — there are too many...”
– L. M. Montgomery, The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Vol. 3 (via bookoasis)
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via vimoh)
