2008
Jul
What politicians fail to realise is that rising inflation...
— Ciaran O’Hagan,...
Jul 3rd
One morning in 2001, Gregg Monsees received a call from a...
— The Library Ladder - When You...
Jul 3rd
In its unexampled directness the photograph has enjoyed,...
— Wright Morris
Jul 1st
Jun
I had recently read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and heard...
— Wright Morris, Photographs...
Jun 30th
September 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of...
Jun 21st
Most people have the idea of finding a needle in a haystack;...
— Fayez Sarofim, Houston-based...
Jun 21st
Wright Morris’s inspiration in the 1940s to combine...
— Alan Trachtenberg - Wright...
Jun 19th
Our artists have to find poetry in train stations the way...
— Emile Zola
Jun 10th
To be sure, a crash in the oil market is not imminent. The...
— George Soros
Jun 10th
We have these big stories that we live in – nation,...
— Salman Rushdie, “A...
Jun 9th
Yet replicating the first green revolution will be...
— Javier Blas, “The End of...
Jun 2nd
May
British Soul (WSJ)
John Jorgensen, writing in the Wall Street Journal: “Princess of Wails.” Duffy is part...
May 9th
Very early on a poet is struck by the cruelty and lack of...
— Jim Harrison,...
May 5th
Apr
Artifacts mystically quickened with sentiment and emotion...
— Wright Morris,...
Apr 24th
The reader says, ‘What a memory you have!’ but...
— Wright Morris
Apr 24th
People think that because a novel’s invented, it...
— Anthony Powell
Apr 9th
Mar
…because the only people for me are the mad ones, the...
— On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Mar 7th
A link from the Magnum Photos blog to my...
Mar 6th
Here are some of the things we learned about building...
— Ed Thorp, A Perspective on...
Mar 4th
Feb
After having invested many years in learning one specialty,...
— Robert Hagstrom, Investing:...
Feb 14th
The human appetite desires metaphysical and intellectual, as...
— Helen Vendler, The Breaking...
Feb 7th
Jan
There are many things that aren’t happening that would...
— Helen Vendler
Jan 17th
Gone is the incessant cheerleading of CNBC, and mercifully...
— Frank Barbera
Jan 16th
2007
Dec
“A decoupled world with a recessionary US, a weak US dollar but a strong emerging market...
Dec 30th
Great leap forward - A modern Chinese...
Cao Xueqin The Story of the Stone, translated by David Hawkes (Penguin Classics, 1973-). Written...
Dec 29th
The industry calls them “mooks,” or...
— http://www.danwei.org/magazines...
Dec 22nd
This would be my personal test for the ultimate artistic...
— Sven Birkerts, Reading Life:...
Dec 15th
Nov
Watch
ABC (poem) by Robert Pinsky
Nov 30th
Suggestions for Amazon
* Listmania - Amazon allows you to add books from someone’s Reading List to your own, but it...
Nov 30th
Into the place of confusion comes, or should come, the...
— Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg...
Nov 29th
Aspen - the multimedia magazine
Nov 28th
In General
Nov 28th
FollowOnTumblr
If you use Tumblr, please consider reblogging this post and updating it with the people you...
Nov 28th
What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous...
— Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg...
Nov 28th
In the pseudonymous works, there is not a single word which...
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Point...
Nov 27th
How can a piece of writing have simple ideas and still...
— Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg...
Nov 25th
Mass culture may fade, but common culture will not. We will...
— Chris Anderson, The Long Tail,...
Nov 20th
Tribes of interest. Chris Anderson, The Long Tail, p. 184.
Nov 20th
TechCrunch.com: Google Magazine?
Nov 20th
The knowledge base that provides useful support for...
— David Swensen, Yale...
Nov 20th
The advantage of probabilistic systems is that they benefit...
— Chris Anderson, The Long Tail,...
Nov 20th
People don’t care about books. They care about ideas.
— Tim O-Reilly
Nov 20th
Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa was born in 1888 in Lisbon...
— http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2...
Nov 16th
For the most part the sites that have risen to influence,...
— John Battelle
Nov 16th
The essence of what makes a great newspaper has nothing to...
— John Battelle
Nov 16th
Microblogging is a personal platform. Tumblr asks you to...
— http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ho...
Nov 16th