Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
Bloom. Western Canon
sonic.netFather said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned
William Faulkner • The Sound and the Fury
only major art form where the opinion of a random fourteen-year-old is considered more relevant than the analysis of a sixty-four-year-old scholar.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
epistemology
Stephen King • Fairy Tale
An implication will be that Sternberg, as an emblem—or synecdochical appendage—of his generation, will countenance, in his future, The Future.
David Foster Wallace • Girl With Curious Hair
quality endemic to all geniuses—he was like a great child.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Peel dramatizes the boredom through the juxtaposition of images, and in so doing he forces the reader
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Burgess’s novel showed how to use hyperbolic language to convey deadened emotional states.