London readers continue to browse at a bombed-out library, WWII.
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feelingsofthesecondarycharacters:
Some of my newest #toreads
I’m on a #Fitzgerald kick right now so I decided to buy the Love of the Last Tycoon and a little short story collection. I bought Of Love and Other Demons because I’ve been meaning to read another Marquez book for awhile now, that as well as Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, and I got Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the Revenant because they’re both books that have movie adaptations I’m interested in seeing! Hope to get to them all soon! #books #bookstagram
A fabulous stack of books; Wise Blood in particular is amazing.
"I am too pure for you or anyone."
— Sylvia Plath, excerpt of “Fever 103°,” Ariel (via middecember)
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"This may well be my favorite comma in all of literature. It’s not grammatically necessary; you might, if you were so inclined (I’m not), argue that it’s incorrect. But here it is, the last breath of the paragraph, and I like to think that it’s SJ’s way of saying, “This is your last chance to set this book down and go do something else, like work in your garden or go down the street for an ice cream cone. Because from this point on it’s just you, and me, and whatever it is that walks, and walks alone, in Hill House.” I don’t think that anyone’s going anywhere. Right?"
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Shirley Jackson’s Sublime First Graf in ‘Hill House’, Annotated
We asked Random House copy chief Ben Dreyer to annotate the eerily memorable and exceptionally well-constructed first paragraph of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, and it’s just marvelous.
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Poetry as revolution.
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“I do just like to write long sentences. The longer it goes, the more musical it has to become, the stronger it has to be.”
Terrance Hayes, at a reading in October, 2015
“I want to be as inexplicable as something hanging a dozen feet in the air.”
Terrance Hayes, at a reading in October, 2015
