September 2010
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“Jonathan Franzen has in the past been a writer who has flourished in sequences...”
– LRB review of Freedom. I’m reading Franzen’s Strong Motion (1992) right now and it’s not awfully good!
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Ed Miliband must embrace new media →
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“When I invent a character—not all of them, some sit on the edge like cardboard...”
– AS Byatt interviewed about writing and neuroscience on one of my favourite podcasts: All In The Mind.
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“The reinvention of daily life means marching off the egde of our maps.”
– American anarchist Bob Black quoted in Russh magazine.
“just like you don’t walk into an accounting firm with a degree in medieval...”
– flickflickflicker (via whitepajamas)
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“When I was starting to write—in the late fifties, early sixties—there was a kind...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 71, Joan Didion
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The Cool Hunter - It’s Time To Do Your Own Thing →
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“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant...”
– Henry James
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Chaka Khan, “Ain’t nobody.”
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The 5 ways your shop is losing the introvert's...
Working in advertising I see lots of briefs for retail clients that ask “how can we make the act of shopping more social? How can we be more on trend and upbeat, how can we create more energy in our stores, have more personal interaction?” After a hectic day shopping on Saturday I think, as a customer, that’s the absolute last thing I want. And that’s because - while...
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“I was always frustrated by one area of impenetrability, which was that Terry...”
– To an Aesthete Dying Young - a beautiful story about Andrew Solomon’s friendship with his university roommate.
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“China is changing from the factory of the world to the clean-tech laboratory of...”
– while America’s Republicans turned “climate change” into a four-letter word — J-O-K-E — China’s Communists also turned it into a four-letter word — J-O-B-S. NYTimes.com
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“if Robert Zimmerman, of small-town Hibbing, Minnesota, had had a Facebook...”
– Jaron Lanier, quoted in “Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook,” Wired.com
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“When I write something, I want it to stand on its own. Call it a character flaw,...”
– Gala Darling on why she turned off comments on her popular blog galadarling.com. Link via rachelhills.
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“Franzen does not take his story very seriously, but the irony is indiscriminate...”
– “Jonathan Franzen’s juvenile prose creates a world in which nothing important can happen.” B. R. Myers’ review of Freedom, The Atlantic
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“Our findings indicate that women find themselves in precarious leadership...”
– Bruckmüller, S. & Branscombe, N. (2010). The glass cliff: When and why women are selected as leaders in crisis contexts. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (3), 433-451 BPS Research Digest
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russell davies: how to be interesting →
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“The ultimate triumph of the idea of individualism is that it’s not really...”
– Two is the magic number: a new science of creativity. By Joshua Wolf Shenk, Slate Magazine
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“I’ve never once in my life seen any film of mine after I put it out. Ever. I...”
– Woody Allen, NYTimes.com
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Notes on Portraiture in the Facebook Age →
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“Look, if you are creating, for example, a list of the top 25 tech bloggers and...”
– The End of Sexism | Tomorrow Museum
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“Boys in the United States learn that masculinity emphasizes detachment, control...”
– Women more likely than men to accept global warming: a gender divide that’s not explained by the roles that men and women perform such as whether they were homemakers, parents or employed full time. Instead, researchers theorised the divide is caused by “gender ...
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Elaine Dundy’s ‘The Dud Avocado’: One-Minute Book... →
I love this book and Sally Jay, whose friends in Paris were a “rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.”
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“…A chief thrust of right-wing ideology is invested in making green and...”
– Eco ego, PopMatters
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“Think of the internet like an epic cocktail party, filled with chattering 24/7...”
– Are Distractible People More Creative? Wired.com