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The former associate editor in charge of the magazine’s SOCIETY PAGES feature had once referred to Skip Atwater as an emotional tampon, though there were plenty of people who could verify that she had been a person with all kinds of personal baggage of her own. As with institutional politics everywhere, the whole thing got very involved.
David Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
All children want to be ordinary, and she never was, and that had been difficult – but all adults want to be extraordinary, and now she amplifies her strangeness, delighting in her ignorance of worldly matters and her tendency to speak sometimes in a biblical cadence, telling men she meets that she was born in 1887 (this being the year they dug Bet
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
An essayist, a novelist, a memoirist, a historian, a poet, a comedian, a narrative philosopher, a songwriter, a screenwriter — in the search to find the edges of language, the writer finds temptations to learn all the sub-mediums.
we become more trusting and giving when we feel enriched by nature.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
Maria: Scott and I were thinking about applying to Yaddo, that arts colony where you can go for two months and you unplug and then you just work on your book or your graphic novel or whatever, but I’m worried I would fall into a depression.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
