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Members of the construction team which built Poets House’s new home join actor Bill Murray for the first poetry reading at 10 River Terrace, New York.

” Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

-Dr Seuss

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they
are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look
at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine
about their condition, They do not lie awake in the
dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me
sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is
dissatisfied, […]

John Berger reads Ghassan Kanafani’s
Letter to Gaza. for the Palestine Festival of Literature

“Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform — and even just to see, close up, power and aggression made vulnerable to beauty is to feel inspired and (in a fleeting, mortal way) reconciled.”
m -David Foster Wallace

I have really enjoyed reading this blog,Dear Old Love.

people actually use the web? I find vastly more weird, unplanned stuff online than I ever did browsing the stacks as a grad student. Browsing the stacks is one of the most overrated and abused examples in the canon of things-we-used-to-do-that-were-so-much-better. (I love the whole idea of pulling down a book because you like the […]

“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.” J. D. Salinger
 via Parisfriends

viaThe Awful Library Books

Thank you Luna & Tatiana
“With their endless appetite for talk and attention, extroverts also dominate social life, so they tend to set expectations. In our extrovertist society, being outgoing is considered normal and therefore desirable, a mark of happiness, confidence, leadership. Extroverts are seen as bighearted, vibrant, warm, empathic. “People person” is a compliment. Introverts are […]

an admirably modest and beautiful two-story library inBan Tha Song Yang villiage, Thailand built with natural lava stone from the site, concrete, wood, and bamboo.
Rintala Eggertsson Architects
 via designboom

Wishful Drinking

“Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.” -Donald Justice, Men at Forty

“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are […]

“We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.”
-J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

by Garry Kasparov
“This is our last chess metaphor, then—a metaphor for how we have discarded innovation and creativity in exchange for a steady supply of marketable products. The dreams of creating an artificial intelligence that would engage in an ancient game symbolic of human thought have been abandoned. Instead, every year we have new chess programs, […]

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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”

J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91