October 2011
36 posts
FREE: The Graveyard Book. Read by Neil Gaiman. With a broken finger. In a black leather jacket. →
mousecircus.com
All 8 chapters, along with the best of the Q&As from after each chapter’s reading, from the tour. http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
There’s lots of other wonderful stuff over at mousecircus.com, too. I’m afraid I forget it’s there.
“…Short stories are the best place for young writers to learn their craft: to try out different voices and techniques, to experiment, to learn. And they’re a wonderful place for old writers, when you have an idea that wouldn’t make it to novel length, one simple, elegant thing that needs to be said. People like reading short stories. And they like listening to short stories.”
—Neil Gaiman (written as part of a movement to Save The Short Story)
6-word short stories →
cinderellainrubbershoes.tumblr.com
- For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
-Ernest Hemingway- Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
-Alan Moore- Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
-Richard Powers- The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
-Orson Scott Card- Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
-Margaret Atwood
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
—The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear (Dune by Frank Herbert) (via wordpainting)
“We have dreams of moving back and forward in time, though to use the words of back and forward is to make a nonsense of the dream, for it implies that time is linear, and if that were so there could be no movement, only a forward progression. But we do not move through time, time moves through us. I say this because our physical bodies have a natural decay span, they are one-use-only units that crumble around us. To everyone, this is a surprise.”
—Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
All of Steve Jobs' 313 patents →
nytimes.com
This doesn’t relate directly to books, but I figured I would share this.
Today we lost a brilliant technological mind. You cannot go an hour, let alone a day, without seeing or hearing a reference to something he created. Here’s a list of all of the things he has shared with us. Let us not forget how he spent his life: sharing his talents with the world. And let’s hope we can manage to do the same.
