Literature
Six word stories and one sentence stories.
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” —and is said to have called it his best work.[…]
Question and answer time with Chuck Palahniuk
Q: Can someone be a brilliant artist without being seriously fucked-up? Can someone be a brilliant artist and be completely sane and well-adjusted? Can the[…]
Life Imitating Art
Life Imitating Art — Chuck Palahniuk style… Man sentenced for faking seizures at restaurants A Baltimore man has been sentenced to a year and a[…]
J.D. Salinger RIP
From AP: NEW YORK (AP) — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and[…]
Haruki Murakami Book Covers
Haruki Murakami at Cal Performances Oct 11, 2008. Link to Cal Performances website. Click here to see more Murakami book covers by John Gall and Chip[…]
Henry Miller remembers New York.
Henry Miller remembers New York. Straight out of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. Some of the related links on YouTube are interesting too.
‘Practically everything I know about writing… I learned from music’ — Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami From NY Times: That’s from his extraordinary essay which appeared on the final page of the July 8, 2007 New York Times Book[…]
61 literary euphemisms for masturbation…
61 literary euphemisms for masturbation: 1. Blurbing yourself 2. Burying the lede 3. Challenging Alexander Pushkin to a one-handed duel 4. Coaxing Salinger to come[…]