August 2011
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I’m not here to see anyone, but don’t people your age dance?
– Francis McDormand as quoted in Pop Jew in Brooklyn: So uh, Frances McDormand was at Death By Audio last night (via)
New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul...
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
I suddenly felt the drabness of my own existence. The hour I’d spent with...
– Jay McInerney, How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
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I am unable to shake the belief that there is anything more important to our...
– Rob Delaney (via )
The Debate: "(500) Days of Summer" →
Revisiting my “500 Days of Summer” debate with the delightfully stubborn David Greenwald (Spoiler alert: I think this movie is the worst).
I read about the Great Man theory, which is basically the idea that individuals...
– Jay McInerney, How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
Don’t do anything that doesn’t feel right. If someone’s telling you, ‘This...
– Louis CK, interviewed in the Onion A.V. Club
That moment of solidarity, of strangers comforting one another in the streets,...
– Jay McInerney, How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
Sometimes it’s hard being with someone for a long time. We go through periods...
– Gwyneth Paltrow, quoted in Elle
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Is this really an addiction? I’ve met Divya a couple of times, and this “extreme” hobby strikes me only as a neat (albeit quirky) extension of her fashion leanings, no?
colinfitzpatrick:
My neighbor who lives right across the courtyard in the same building complex in Ditmas Park as me, who also happens to be one of my best friends, is going to be on My Strange Addiction...
Fiction at Storychord
Proud to have debuted a new author on Storychord this week — though I have to say, I’m quite surprised this is his first publication credit!
jacobsilverman:
My short story, “Rose Garden,” was chosen for the latest issue of Storychord. This is doubly exciting for me, as I’m a fan of Storychord (which twice a month publishes a story, an image, and a one-song soundtrack by...