Ravi Mangla's Blog, page 7
January 19, 2016
Diane Williams
“A tiny editorial gesture can deepen and enliven text: a title change, a word change, an added phrase at the end. And sometimes aggressive intervention yields unforeseen power; the excision of a great deal of text that is strangling the whole, the rearrangement of paragraphs.”
- Diane Williams interviewed at LARB
January 13, 2016
January 11, 2016
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
January 7, 2016
December 31, 2015
2015 Link Roundup
Stories
“Court of Appeals” at matchbook
“Lever” at The Collagist
“Oglers” at Wigleaf
“Greenly, Everett and Marion, 1878-1903″ at Booth Journal
“Ways” at Corium Magazine (Reprint)
“Better Halves” at Litragger (Reprint)
Essays
“The Race Dynamics of Online Dating” at Pacific Standard
“The Secret History of Jaywalking” at Salon
“True Blue” at The Paris Review Daily
“On the Stories (Or Lack Thereof) of Joe Brainard” at Electric Literature
“Secondhand Brawlers” at The Billfold
Interviews
December 28, 2015
December 21, 2015
Sven Birkerts
“Great art, ambitious, realized art, not only lifts us to its level, but also gives us energy in the form of attention; it offers an inward integrity to help counter the dissipating force of signals, endless distractions of data. It arms us, if only for a time, against the depletion that threatens on every front. But more than a refuge or a sanctuary, it is also an inoculation; it is a preemptive engagement undertaken on behalf of the individual and it keeps the ideal of individuation, so threatened, still viable.”
- Sven Birkerts (from ”On or About”)
December 16, 2015
December 8, 2015
Julian Barnes
“Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.”
- Julian Barnes, Levels of Life
