A Reader’s Manifesto - Open The Magazine
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A Reader’s Manifesto - Open The Magazine
Manifestos are repositories of a kind of magic and madness that does not exist in any other genre.
from The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need by Julian Hanna
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- While finishing the book, I wrote to a novelist friend and asked him whether I sounded naïve in my approach. Of course you do, he said, and that’s the only way to write anything in a dying world. In fact, to write any book is an act of practically fanatic devotion, he said, because to write a book is to insist on the possibility of a future in whic... See more
from Fandom as Methodology: On Fan-Nonfiction and Finding the Joy of Mutual Delusion by Elvia Wilk
Sixian added
Magazines were containers for someone else’s taste, and when you read them you were inhabiting that taste. But you were also co-creating with the magazine, because by reading the magazine you were contributing to its fantasy of lifestyle. “Dreaming is free. You can’t be stingy with dreams,” said Franca Sozzani, the late Vogue Italia editor.
from The Taste Economy by Daisy Alioto
Keely Adler and added
I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities
... See morefrom The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts
Kojo added
- A letter from author Anne Lamott on the value of reading:
“If you love to read, or learn to love reading, you will have an amazing life. Period. Life will always have hardships, pressure, and incredibly annoying people, but books will make it all worthwhile. In books, you will find your North Star, and you will find you, which is why you are here.
B... See morefrom 3-2-1: On the paradox of focus, criticism, and the value of reading by James Clear
Isaac Feldman and added
- “To her, every book was an account of her own life, and in reading she came to life; for the first time, she came out of her shell; she learned to talk about herself; and with each book she had more ideas on the subject. Little by little, I learned something about her.”
from A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by ECW Press
Jay Matthews added
It is easy enough in retrospect to see a book as a screen, a shield, an escape, but at the time there was just the magic—the startling and renewable discovery that a page covered with black markings could, with a slight mental exertion, be converted into an environment, an inward depth populated with characters and animated by diverse excitements.
... See morefrom The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts
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