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09.02
It’s our job to convince the 95 percent of people who don’t read books, who instead medicate themselves in front of screens, that literary art isn’t some esoteric tradition, but a direct path to meaning, to an understanding of the terror that lives beneath our consumptive ennui. It’s hard to make this case, though, if all we do is squabble with each other and lament our obscurity. – Steve Almond at The Rumpus
08.25
(T)he Web can you leave you feeling lonelier, once you turn off the computer. Fiction and poetry connect you, or they can, to something bigger and quieter and more lasting than the day you had at work. – Lorin Stein at the The Atlantic
08.24
Why not me down the street hanging out with my dementia-struck father who does not remember me anymore but probably has only years or a year or months or weeks or minutes left to live. Everyone does. Why am I not with everyone. – Blake Butler at HTMLGIANT
08.19
The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker. It is not fragility. It’s strength. - Dear Sugar on women writers at The Rumpus
08.18
Every day is a gift. I am probably wasting that gift. – Roxane Gay on writing at Bent Country
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