Category: words

“Either the monster in his mirror has led him on a dangerous journey he didn’t realise he was taking (though it’s hard to believe no editor would have pointed it out to him), or he’s belatedly woken up to the fact that taking a pop at his literary elders is not necessarily the smartest career move.”

“I watch the Oscars memorial presentation and sit there going, Did him, did her, didn’t do that one. For obit writers, the whole world is necessarily divided into the dead and the pre-dead. That’s all there is.”

“Prominent comedians and writers, such as the ‘Portlandia’ star Carrie Brownstein and the novelist Zadie Smith, have thrown their weight behind Ms. Dunham and will appear on her tour as part of a carefully curated cast of artists, along with live music, poetry readings and, naturally, food trucks.”

“His ambivalence cut to the heart of the poetry world’s own resistance to performance poetry, which Miller described as ‘a fight between the poet who does his best work standing up, who finds his greatest eloquence on stage, and the poet who does his best work sitting down, who finds his greatest eloquence on the page.'”

“With the author and other readers encouraged to respond to suggestions, the editing turns into a group conversation, potentially creating a real buzz in the runup to publication.”

“Regarding the effect on potential market value — you think that might be something that would vary from book to book, but the court really did not consider it that way. It treated the books in the aggregate.”

“Nate: If you had told me three years ago that I’d be mentioning Coachella while talking about the NY Art Book Fair …

“Alanna: Haha, yeah, right? It’s great though, print is alive and well.”

“The regulations are intended to ‘standardise all literature … publicised and published in the Maldives in accordance with laws and regulations of the Maldives and its societal etiquette’, and to ‘reduce adverse effects on society that could be caused by published literature’.”

Consider this sentence: Even Rupert Murdoch, who opened a new London headquarters for his UK newspapers last week, is insisting that each of the titles turns a profit, rather than relying on subsidies from other parts of his media empire.

Amtrak has chosen its first class of 24 writers for its residency program. There were 16,000 applications. They’ll ride on long-distance trains and write about the experiences.