Michele Filgate
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“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image…” — from the essay “In the Islands” from THE WHITE ALBUM by Joan Didion -
Franklin Park didn’t have the Bulls game on, but that was okay because they had a stacked bill of readers in the house.
(1) Karen Russell reads her short story, “The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis” (2) Karen chats up fellow author Fiona Maazel w/ Roxane in the background (3) Leigh Newman (4) Tin House editor-at-large, Elissa Schappell (5) Leigh Newman reads from “Still Point North” (6) Roxane Gay reads her review of the movie Battleship (7) Roxane and Lauren Cerand (8) Michael Heald reads from “Goodbye To The Nervous Apprehension”
That’s the back of my head in the second photograph. I had so much fun listening to some of my favorite writers at last night’s Franklin Park reading. Major props to Penina Roth for running one of the best reading series in NYC!
(via luxlotus)
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So this is what happens when you work with @danwilbur and he decides to write your staff pick. (For the record: I haven’t read INFINITE JEST…but I plan to.)
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“In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life.” -
the adventures of jenn I(n) R(eal) L(ife): Apocalypse Chili: A Recipe Start with one can of chili, and several other cans of things that you think should be in chili. For example: Corn. Stewed tomatoes. Various types of beans.
I am not great at feeding myself. Not in a diagnosable way — more in the sense that if I gave in to my inclinations I would exist solely…
Jenn Northington is an incredible writer and I want her to write an essay collection so I can read it. (She reminds me of Cheryl Strayed and Kate Christensen.)
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I’m living the American Dream right now.
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“I’d thought this was how artists moved to New York, alone, that the city was a mecca of individual points, longings, all merging into one great light-pulsing mesh, and you simply found your pulse, your place.” — from THE FLAMETHROWERS by Rachel Kushner -
My personal motto. (Thanks, @lauriemuchnick!)
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Vacation reading! (I’ll probably only read 2-3 books…) I managed to narrow it down to FIVE books for a long weekend.
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“The frontiers of the unsayable, and the avenues of approach to these frontiers, have been opened for me by every book I have ever read that was in any degree ambitious, earnest, or imaginative; by every good teacher I have had; by music and painting; by conversation that was in any way interesting; even conversation overheard as it passed between strangers.” —
