February 2012
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Neil Gaiman: It's Extra Magic Bonus Happy Leap... →
neil-gaiman:
Please celebrate Leap Year Day in the traditional manner by taking a writer out for dinner.
It’s been four years since many authors had a good dinner. We are waiting. Many of us have our forks or chopsticks at the ready - some of us have had them ready for days. We will repay you by drifting off while the food is being served and then suddenly scribbling something down on a...
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The West of West Review: The Responsibility of the... →
“There is a school of thought that if somebody buys a piece, it is theirs; they can do what they want with it. But I believe that they do [have a responsibility to the pieces that they own]. One of the collector’s referred to himself as a “custodian” of the artwork and I’ve since had a number of other collectors come up to me after the opening and say, “You know, now that I’ve read what...
““Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write,...”
Newly digitized love letters of Robert and... →
fuckyeahmanuscripts:
“I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett.”
Apocalyptic Picnic
thewestofwestreview:
London: So this is what having a picnic was like.
Sydney: I really like it. It feels so… dangerous.
- From Mily Mumford’s sweet short-play Picnic in a Post-Apocalyptic Park-land. To read the full play, visit The West of West Review or just click this link.
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bookmania)
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The Grammys were the victims of Chris Brown???
“We’re glad to have [Chris Brown] back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of get over the fact that we were the victim of what happened.”
To read Sasha Pasulka’s fantastic diatribe against Chris Brown, visit HelloGiggles.
West of West Reviews: Donor
A review I wrote of Donor, the multiple-award winning film coming out of the Philippines, for The West of West Review’s coverage of the Victoria Film Festival. To read the rest of my review, just visit The West of West Review by clicking on the link.
“Mark Meily’s Donor takes its viewers into the streets and markets, strip joints and jails of Manila, providing a glimpse into what a woman...
In defense of books:
thewestofwestreview:
“Paper books may be the only media remaining that don’t report your behavior back to anonymous aggregators.”
(via wwnorton)
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