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Bewitched-- The rhythm of her sentences is hypnotic, and her stories are just phenomenal. Many of them revolve around religious/Christian themes, death, and sudden inexplicable violence. I'd describe Jaeggy as a cross between Clarice Lispector and Fla ...more |
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside”
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Will be posting short stories when I have time away from longer works
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I occasionally teach a seminar for college freshmen titled "Law & Literature," and am always on the lookout for good novels, short stories, poems, and ...more
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A group for the amazing work of David Foster Wallace, now deceased. RIP 1962-2008 Feel free to add his books to the bookshelf for the group.
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Taka’s 2017 Year in Books
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