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SCHOOL BOARD REMOVES MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST FROM SUMMER READING LIST

SCHOOL BOARD REMOVES MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST FROM SUMMER READING LIST:

While I’m, of course, very proud that CAM POST is now in the great-good company of so many excellent banned or once-banned books, I’m very disappointed that the school board chose this action—particularly given that none of its members had apparently even read the book prior to coming to this decision, one that overrules the careful work of the librarians who put the original Blue Hen reading list together.

Reading a few select passages does not give one an adequate sense of the themes or style or even the content, really, of a 500 page novel.

I’m also rather surprised that “inappropriate language” is the sole reason the board is citing for their decision to remove my book, especially given the rather salty language on display in several of the other (excellent) books on their list. 

fer1972:Street Art by Tristan Eaton

fer1972:

Street Art by Tristan Eaton

"My interest is not so much about a Truth that supersedes all else. Nor is it in the competition..."

“My interest is not so much about a Truth that supersedes all else. Nor is it in the competition between fact and fiction. In fact, I’m most intrigued by how fact and fiction work together to create a so-called truth. Facts are facts. But it’s how they are arranged and linked and filled in that makes them become a truth or a history. And I just can’t help but believe that it is really the product of combining fact and imagination that get us to those truthful places. For the most part, I do feel obligation or allegiance to facts in my books. However, I also recognize the power of omission, as well as how a fact can have different implications when it is abutted or juxtaposed against other facts or imagined reactions, etc. That said, decisions do need to be made; and I strive to make them all from a position of strength, meaning if/when I might stray from the so-called factual, I know that I am doing it and have a definite reason (as opposed to it being from laziness or disregard).”

- Adam Braver (via mttbll)

artchipel:Pawel Nolbert (Poland) - AtypicalPawel Nolbert is a...

Pawel Nolbert's Atypical typography


Pawel Nolbert's Atypical typography


Pawel Nolbert's Atypical typography


Pawel Nolbert's Atypical typography


Pawel Nolbert's Atypical typography

artchipel:

Pawel Nolbert (Poland) - Atypical

Pawel Nolbert is a Warsaw based multidisciplinary artist & designer crossing the boundaries of the various talents: from illustration, typography, digital design, 3D design to photography. During the past decade, he gained experience creating visual work for brands like Google, Verizon, Adobe, Nike, Sony, Nvidia, Polaroid, Grammy’s, Mercedes-Benz, Dodge, Red Bull, Jagermeister, Disney and many more big and small clients, agencies or studios.

© All images courtesy the artist

[more Pawel Nolbert | artist found at darksilenceinsuburbia]

likeafieldmouse:Ahndraya Parlato - Towards an Uncertain Sight...

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Ahndraya Parlato - Towards an Uncertain Sight (2009-ongoing)

Is there ever going to be a sequel to Cameron Post? Please say yes, it's the absolute best and I could read it forever.

How lovely of you to say! The most honest answer I can give is: maybe someday. I do have lots of additional pages written about Cam’s later adventures, but those pages do not make for a novel. Yet. Not yet. But maybe one day. I mean, there are many things to tell about Lindsey as the lead singer of the riot grrrl band the Molly Bolts. And also plenty to say about Cam’s time working in a maternity mannequin factory in Pasadena. And about Irene moving back to eastern Montana to help run her family’s Dinosaur Ranch. And…

fer1972:The Art of Kevin Van Aelst

fer1972:

The Art of Kevin Van Aelst

fer1972:Paintings by Jan Worst(What would happen if his...

fer1972:

Paintings by Jan Worst

(What would happen if his lastname was ‘Best’?)

"Throw away the scale. There is no scale, there is only your story. Listen to the story you are..."

“Throw away the scale. There is no scale, there is only your story. Listen to the story you are trying to tell, that unconscious combination of imagination and memory and feeling, and trust it. Concentrate on expressing that as clearly as you can, concentrate on finding the language for it, but above all don’t second-guess it. It’s your true north. Because here’s the great thing about novels and writing and creating anything: Nobody else can possibly write the book you’re writing. It is yours, singular, and the more clearly it is expressed the more alive its singularity will be. If you want to be ruthless, be ruthless about clarity, be ruthless about trusting yourself, be ruthless about finding generosity for your characters, but most of all be ruthless about ignoring the inner demon that keeps telling you you’ll never be as good as Eudora Welty or Zadie Smith or David Mitchell or James Baldwin or whoever, that your novel will never be better than an 8. That inner demon is full of fear, and fear, if anything, is what reduces a novel and sterilizes its language. Fear, in writing, is a self-fulfilling prophesy. So banish it, banish the whole scale, and trust your own dark bouquet of inspiration. Thank god you’re not those other writers. We already have their books, but we don’t have yours, and I am of the mind that the world is almost always made better by more books.”

- Ted Thompson (via mttbll)

likeafieldmouse:Francesca Pasquali - White Straws (2014)

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Francesca Pasquali - White Straws (2014)