LitReactor: the supplemental material

Person: hey have you read any good books lately?

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:15:44 -0400

Person: hey have you read any good books lately?
Me: are you ready for this conversation

"‘This isn’t the store where you’ll find the book you were looking for,’ Fowler says. ‘It’s the store..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:39 -0400

““‘This isn’t the store where you’ll find the book you were looking for,’ Fowler says. ‘It’s the store where you’ll find the book you didn’t know you were looking for.’””

- An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop (via irisblasi)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 12:45:27 -0400

vintageanchorbooks: “In fiction, you have a rough idea what’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:15:26 -0400

vintageanchorbooks:

“In fiction, you have a rough idea what’s coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don’t know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.”
—Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen was born today in 1927.

Happy Birthday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sorry that character you hate is what you're known for.

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:29 -0400

thenorwoodbuilder:

riverheadbooks: Khaled Hosseini talks about his new novel, And...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:45:18 -0400

riverheadbooks:

Khaled Hosseini talks about his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed.

Starts tomorrow. This class was such a big hit we added another...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:40:48 -0400

Starts tomorrow.

This class was such a big hit we added another week of instruction.

Spread the word.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 11:13:32 -0400

slaughterhouse90210: “This was before voice mail, recorded...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:57:13 -0400

slaughterhouse90210:

“This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Beasts

enasnivolz: ealperin: reading-thoughts: edwardspoonhands: Not...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:15:39 -0400

enasnivolz:

ealperin:

reading-thoughts:

edwardspoonhands:

Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…

These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.

To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
- Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”

*Crying with laughter*

ITS IN IAMBIC PENTAMETER. THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE THING.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 16:31:14 -0400

wnycradiolab: jtotheizzoe: The Earliest Days of NASA Maria...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:25 -0400

wnycradiolab:

jtotheizzoe:

The Earliest Days of NASA

Maria Popova, at Brain Pickings, happened upon a treasure trove of early NASA (and its airplane-only predecessor NACA) archive photos. They are really something. From biplanes to the Mercury capsule, pre-1950 aeronautics seemed to live by the motto of “If we build it, then we can go there.” That’s a sentiment we could use a bit more of.

More here.

Yes please!

There's a book for that

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:45:49 -0400

powells:

artemiswinter:

powells:

marigold1900:

How to Talk Yourself Out of …

plastic surgery: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells

tattoos: In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

haircuts: Sweeney Todd (multiple authors)

Oooh, let’s make this a thing…

prep school: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

hooking up with exes: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

holding a grudge: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

marriage: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

cheating: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

manic pixie dream girls: Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

extramarital affairs: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (See also: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)

trusting teenagers: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

politics: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

"The writer’s job is to turn the unspeakable into words — not just into any words, but if we can,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:15:37 -0400

“The writer’s job is to turn the unspeakable into words — not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.”

- Anne Lamott (via ilivetowriteandinspire)

vintageanchorbooks: “But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:47 -0400

vintageanchorbooks:

“But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”

- from “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe

The hit class is back for another round—with an added week of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:00:51 -0400

The hit class is back for another round—with an added week of instruction!

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:45:18 -0400

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”

- L. R. Knost via thatkindofwoman (via petitpoulailler)

"Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:24:49 -0400

““Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.””

- Camilo José Cela (via theparisreview)

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:16:11 -0400

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

- Charles Bukowski, Pulp (via audrotas)

openbooksorg: These are available at the official Roald Dahl...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:30:37 -0400

openbooksorg:

These are available at the official Roald Dahl store. (I can’t believe I didn’t know that either existed until just now.)