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Category Archives: Beautiful Writing
Why I Love Sugar, Reason #798
If your tear ducts need a workout, go read Sugar’s latest over at The Rumpus. When I was eleven, my brother and sister and I went to visit our father. We traveled to the place he lived a thousand miles … Continue reading
I don’t enjoy this war one bit
Today would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday. Letters of Note has history’s greatest fan letter, which Wallace wrote to the novelist Don DeLillo just before the publication of Infinite Jest. I have a hard time understanding how Fun … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful Writing, Literary-type Goings-on
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What do you think of the first page of my novel?
Some incorrigible Internet wag went ahead and posted the first page of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest on Yahoo Answers under the title, “First Page of my book. What do you think?” (The whole post has since been deleted, so … Continue reading
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Snapshots from a rock ‘n’ roll marriage
Here is a touching and unflinching portrait of a rock and roll marriage. It was written by Denise Grollmus, who was married to Patrick Carney of the Black Keys. She certainly pulls no punches, but another part of this piece’s … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful Writing, Happy Valley Hoedown
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Captain Beefheart’s Commandments for Guitar Players
Don Van Vliet, AKA Captain Beefheart, died yesterday. Courtesy of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, here are his ten commandments for guitar players. Good advice for anyone who creates. All are essential, but my favorites are these: 2. Your guitar … Continue reading
Beautiful Writing
Patrick O’Brian on Gothenburg, Sweden, from The Surgeon’s Mate, book seven of the Aubrey/Maturin series. “Gothenburg, a melancholy town, most of it quite recently burnt, inhabited by tall, spare melancholiacs dressed in grey wool, much given to drinking and self-murder … Continue reading
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