Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes. Henry Miller’s 11 commandments of writing. Booyaka!
Arvin, the Author at Work
Writing. Music. Art. Outdoors. Musings. Conspiracies. Lies. Love. Coffee. Tea. Me.
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“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.”
- Cornel West
Nov11
On my wish list!
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Sep25
What went wrong with Hemingway? The question was being asked, despite the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954, long before he died. Critics were remarking—in some cases, with justification—on his decline almost as soon as he was flush with success. His early short stories have ever been stoutly defended, but even parts of the "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) came under early attack. And the books written in the 1930s sharply divided opinion. For some, his Spanish Civil War novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940), represented a return to form—certainly the public loved it—but for others it was merely Hemingway striking attitudes. By the time he published his first postwar novel, "Across the River and Into the Trees" (1950), it seemed to many that, in the words of the critic Wilfrid Sheed in 1977, he was "an artistically desperate man. . . . In 'Across the River and Into the Trees' he made a complete ass of himself."→
Allan Massie, WSJ 9.24.11The Slow Crack-Up
Ernest Hemingway, who told so many lies in his books, could never lie to himself
Sep24
20 Years ago today, September 24th 1991- We met these guys and music changed for the better (for once). When I see this it makes me think of how genuine and powerful this music and culture was at the time that the mainstream was clamoring to catch up to the point fashion designers were including flannel in all of their collections- even if it didn’t match. Chain wallets, 2nd hand stores, walkmen, 120minutes and other fun things about the 90s…
Sep15
Author dumps HarperCollins for giving her novels "condescending and fluffy" covers, opts for self-publishing.→
The thought that occurs to me here is that she gained a bigger audience because she had the contract with the publisher but there is also the issue of maintaining your artistic integrity. How much is that worth to you?
(Source: igby)
Sep13
I don’t think we’re going to face Hurricane Sarah in 2012, but my opinion makes no difference.
Neither does yours.
I know that’s very anti-”social media,” but it’s a fact.
Not a single comment that anyone makes on anyone’s blog, nor any blog post itself, will make the slightest difference to what happens to our country between now and the presidential election of 2012.
Social media is bread and circuses, fed to the masses to distract them, while the guys and gals in power continue merrily on their ways.
Twitter is electronic masturbation. It might make you feel better temporarily, but onanism is not political action.
Blogging is a cop-out: cheap and easy.
If we want to save our country from the likes of Sarah Palin, we’ll have to take–peacefully–to the streets.
We’ll have to get off our asses and away from our keyboards and our cheap and easy snide remarks and actually do something.
Blog comments are dust in the wind.
Nobody cares what you think.
Few people care what I think, even though I’ve published twelve books.
But millions of Americans care what Sarah Palin thinks.
Is there anything we can do about that?
Joe McGinniss, THE ROGUE BLOG - Author of the upcoming book, The Rogue:Searching for the Real Sarah Palin
Sep4
Bill Murray and others as COMEDY HEROES.
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