Bill Cheng's Blog, page 122
March 7, 2013
On Neighbors
Check out Jessica Soffer’s great piece in today’s New York Times’ Townies.
“…when Mr. B. glued our locks, we learned how to pick them. When he startled us awake with a blast of music in the middle of the night, we trained ourselves to fall back to sleep. When he wrote cryptic, typewritten letters about the Communist color of my socks, I learned to laugh.”
speakcelebrity:
“Sonnet 17” by William Shakespeare
Read by...
“Sonnet 17” by William Shakespeare
Read by David Tennant
Though this is more your speed, isn’t it, Tumblr?
speakcelebrity:
“Is This a Dagger? (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1)”...
“Is This a Dagger? (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1)” by William Shakespeare
Read/Performed by Ian McKellen
This account doesn’t seem to update anymore, but God I wished it would.
I don’t know what I’m doing.
I don’t know what I’m doing.
March 6, 2013
mraclejones:
orbooks:
Jeanne Thornton’s novel “The Dream of...
Jeanne Thornton’s novel “The Dream of Doctor Bantam” is a finalist in the “LGBT Debut Fiction” category for the 25th Lambda Literary Awards! Congratulations to Jeanne, and we are looking forward to the award ceremony on June 3rd at Cooper Union, where the winner will be announced.
Bam.
Oh YES! NICE!
housingworksbookstore:
bookavore:
Who would have thought that...
Who would have thought that one of the finest essays I’ve ever read about the nature of humanity, mob mentality, and nationalism would be buried in the middle of a book about British footie hooligans?
I mean, aside from the several dozen people that have been ordering me to read Among the Thugs for the last decade. (Thanks again, pushy reader friends, and thanks to my boo for buying it for me for no particular reason.)
Reblogging because I adore/highly recommend this book. Between this and Nick Hornby you would think I am way more into British football than I am in real life. It’s a super interesting anthropological look at the culture of a sport I don’t know much about otherwise.
Buford may be among the smartest men in the world of English letters.
He came into my class as a guest when I was an undergrad at Baruch and I remember him pulling on these invisible hairs on the back of his hand, trying to describe the threads inside a story.
A Library for the Subway
INGENIOUS!!
A trio of students from the Miami Ad School—Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez—have came up with an innovative concept that allows people to read the first ten pages of popular books while riding the subway.
Using near field communications (NFC) technology, commuters select the desired book from a list of popular titles and read its first ten pages—upon finishing, the reader will be informed of the closest library location from which they can pick up and read the rest of the book.
This is a simple but ingenious idea that can be adopted and adapted to encourage reading in the 21st century, when new technology is changing the way we consume books.
Cool!
theparisreview:
“Writing a long novel is like survival...
“Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.” Mohsin Hamid’s fitness tips for writers.
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Last night at Seeds::Brooklyn: That’s Carmiel Banasky on...
Last night at Seeds::Brooklyn: That’s Carmiel Banasky on the front stage. On the front row, you may recognize the backs of the head of the lovely Catherine Chung and Nick Dybek (respectively) and that’s me on the left, protecting the coats
Thanks for coming out!
