Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
His father cobbled together a living doing a bit of everything—
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
“Say hello, you little jive-ass motherfucker,” Fifty-Eight said.
Michael Chabon • Telegraph Avenue
“You that farm boy always hangin around Desiree.”
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
“A comic book novel,” Sammy said. He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the flatlands of his imaginary life, always on the verge of grandeur or disintegration, picking up characters and plotlines like houses and livestock, tossing them aside and movin
... See moreMichael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Along the way, he described how things used to be. “You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”
Edmund White • The Stonewall Reader
Elmore Leonard, starting Get Shorty, labored over “When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio’s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off.”
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
he’s as generous and eager as weeds.