February 2012
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January 2012
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Pico Iyer: The Writing Life: The point of the long... →
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December 2011
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"We are living in a universe uncalculable by... →
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I had a boyfriend, and I had a fantasy of kissing him in warm summer rain, but...
– Heather Peace in ‘The day I came out’: Celebrities reveal their very personal moments of truth via The Independent
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What Wasn't Passed On--via NYT Modern Love:... →
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We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the best...
– Steve Jobs, Fortune, March 7, 2008
From The Wisdom of Steve Jobs over at DailyLit
November 2011
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RT @brainpicker: This obituary for Lana Peters,... →
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RT @Long_Stories: From Silver Lake to Suicide: One... →
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then and now
ambebi:
my research siblings <3
october 2009: kate, cy, almi, (smiley), eliza, schatz, lawrence
december 2010: lawrence, miss miner, kate, almi, eliza, schatz
april 2011: marielle, eliza, almi, kate, schatz, lawrence
november 2011: kate, marielle, schatz, almi, ana, lawrence
Gotta have this on my page :) Parang What Went Before hahaha :))
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When the Words Don't Fit - NYT Modern Love →
We were a good story. Nothing more. He is what I would have chosen when I thought I could choose. So, I suppose that’s the point: Love chooses us.
My husband and I don’t have a great “meeting” story. We met in a conventional way and had a conventional wedding. And in some sense, we lead a conventional life.
But my husband has seen me at my worst, at my most vile. And he has seen me at my...
October 2011
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Lynda Barry Will Make You Believe In Yourself →
By @dankois, via new @NYTMag @hugolindgren
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Do you use Gmail? You may want to read this. →
via @TheAtlantic
September 2011
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Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview →
via @thelonggoodread. (Christina Hendricks is 36. World not fair.)
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"L'amour, CA." by Lysley Tenorio →
via @longreads, @TheAtlantic http://t.co/QrXJOdhb
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"What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?" →
on grading”grit.” via @longreads, @paultough, @NYTmag
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"Fixed Opinions, or The Hinge of History" by Joan... →
via @longreads, @nybooks
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August 2011
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Everyone Wants to Live There →
sarahwrotethat:
fwrictionreview:
Most mornings her boss—soon mine—didn’t arrive until eleven. I read The New York Observer, which was slipped under the door early enough for me to re-fold it and wonder what people up and down Manhattan were doing to be worth ten, twenty, two hundred times more than I was. I was a month out of art school and had decided, too late to apply for fall programs,...
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Make Every Day a Happy Book Day!: That insight.... →
booklat:
“Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to refract human experience. That one can write about it brings him, if not deeper understanding, some kind of peace. In other words, the writer is first a human being, before he is anything else, prone, like much of mankind, to fits of joy and pain. What happens to those...
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