Bill Cheng's Blog, page 25

guernicamag:We’ve got four days left to do this and we know we...

guernicamag:

We’ve got four days left to do this and we know we can reach our goal with your help! When you back our Kickstarter, you’re directly supporting the Guernica Annual’s production costs and writer payments. And if you pre-order now, you’re also guaranteeing yourself a copy of what’s shaping up to be a very beautiful limited edition.

So whether it’s a little or a lot, consider helping the little magazine that could— publishing free, cutting-edge, online, and daily— and help us bring the Guernica Annual into the world.

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lastnightsreading:Dani Shapiro at the 2014 Writer’s Digest...

lastnightsreading:

Dani Shapiro at the 2014 Writer’s Digest Conference, 8/1/14

"I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt..."

“I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it’s getting harder because I want to improve with every book. Sometimes I guess it’s best just to forget there’s an audience and just write like no one will ever read it at all.”

- Markus Zusak, answering if he found writing easy. (via maxkirin)

crystallizations:Kazuo Haba, early 1970s.

crystallizations:

Kazuo Haba, early 1970s.

scottcheshire:At the mighty Powell’s

scottcheshire:

At the mighty Powell’s

reginasworld:Joseph Decamillis breaths second life to old...

reginasworld:

Joseph Decamillis breaths second life to old discarded books by inserting miniature illuminated into their covers. Postage stamp-sized artworks are done on copper plates and placed in carved niches.

Roy Scranton returns to Iraq:I asked him if he still had any...

Roy Scranton returns to Iraq:

I asked him if he still had any hope at all for Iraq, and he leaned in, as if to explain a great secret: “Hopelessness is the limit and beginning of a new kind of hope. You have to keep going – not to achieve dreams of beautiful mountaintop forests, but because life is more powerful than death. Hopelessness makes possible new hope, a faith in the basic tissue of life that is stronger than any disaster. This is how humanity survives. This is the strength that keeps us going.”

scottcheshire:At Skylight Books - what a night!

scottcheshire:

At Skylight Books - what a night!

scottcheshire:At Skylight Books! With Mr. Jeffrey Tambor!

scottcheshire:

At Skylight Books! With Mr. Jeffrey Tambor!

zerostatereflex:Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming...

zerostatereflex:

Tangible Media

MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely,

"Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning."