June 2012
Line Breaks & Other Violent Crimes: TV MONTH:... →
ecantwell:
In which I have a confession to make.
brightwalldarkroom:
NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
by Elizabeth Cantwell
I am not a Carrie. I am not a Miranda or a Samantha or a Charlotte. I’m also not a Rachel or a Monica (although I’m sometimes a Chandler, just like I’m sometimes…
May 2012
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In Treatment (2008-2011) →
brightwalldarkroom:
GOTTA LET IT BYRNE
by Tess Lynch
The HBO series In Treatment, the second season of which ended last spring*, is the most successful—by which I mean it’s realistic to a fault and meticulously controlled, and that it occurs in real-time (or nearly so) and always in the same room (or…
Tess Lynch’s faux-return to BWDR. Yes, it’s a couple of years old, but a...
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…While it’s true you’re haunted by your past, it’s truer that you’ve traveled...
– Dear Sugar, 5/17/12
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...
– Carl Sagan, on books
(via stateless1972)
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There are no whys in a person’s life, and very few hows. In the end, in...
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Only 100 or so pages left, and it really and truly is the wonderful novel that (most) everyone is saying it is. Super recommended.
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It’s interesting if you really think about it, how clumsy and laborious it seems...
– David Foster Wallace, Oblivion
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Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your...
– Lawrence M. Krauss
(via quintezzence)
You make my life the best.
– My daughter, age 5, in her very first hand-written-entirely-by-herself Mother’s Day card, given to K this morning
Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily...
– Maurice Sendak
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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to...
– Joan Didion.
(via bees-knees)
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