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fantagraphics:Daniel Clowes returns to Fantagraphics with...

fantagraphics:

Daniel Clowes returns to Fantagraphics with Patience - Coming March 2016 

“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquel

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See Messud at PEN World Voices Festival http://bit.ly/1F4pCjX

“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquel

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See Messud at PEN World Voices Festival http://bit.ly/1F4pCjX

“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquel

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See Messud at PEN World Voices Festival http://bit.ly/1F4pCjX

“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquel

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See Messud at PEN World Voices Festival http://bit.ly/1F4pCjX

pokeystaples:Junot Diaz on nerd culture and our place within...

pokeystaples:

Junot Diaz on nerd culture and our place within it.

quimbys:All ready for Mr. Clowes! (at Quimby’s Bookstore)

quimbys:

All ready for Mr. Clowes! (at Quimby’s Bookstore)

You can sign up for my writing workshop with the AAWW! ...

You can sign up for my writing workshop with the AAWW!  http://aaww.org/curation/workshop-bill-cheng/

Haruki Murakami's Favourite Books

observando:

I love to read my favourite authors favourite books, so I looked which novels Haruki Murakami loved.

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: “Philip Marlowe is Chandler’s fantasy but he’s real to me.” When he was younger, he explains, after a turbulent time as a student, “I just wanted to live like Marlowe.”

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The Great Gatsby is my favorite book. I translated it a couple of years ago. I wanted to translate it when I was in my 20s, but I wasn’t ready.”

The Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger: “It’s a dark story, very disturbing. I enjoyed it when I was seventeen, so I decided to translate it. I remembered it as being funny, but it’s dark and strong. I must have been disturbed, when I was young. J.D. Salinger has a big obsession, three times bigger than mine. That’s why I’m here tonight, and he isn’t.”

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “Most writers get weaker and weaker as they age. But Dostoyevsky didn’t. He kept getting bigger and greater. He wrote The Brothers Karamazov in his late 50s. That’s a great novel”

The Castle, by Franz Kafka: “I encountered Kafka’s work when I was 15 years old, the book was ‘The Castle’. It was a great big incredible book. It gave me a tremendous shock”

ghostco:There are few things in this world that excite me more...

ghostco:

There are few things in this world that excite me more as an illustrator than seeing my work on a beautifully designed book cover.

You can buy it all over the place, including amazon.

http://instagr.am/p/QptuyPh1A1/