Sublime
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Although I’m not going to pretend that the specific incident wouldn’t strike most people as absurd or even sort of insipid, as causes go.
David Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
The city fascinated Wolfe, and when he was not working, he enjoyed nothing more than walking through every part of town with his editor.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
A mama’s boy, loner, intellectual, voracious reader and gourmand, Dimitri was a man of esoteric skills and appetites: a gambler, philosopher, gardener, fly-fisherman, fluent in Russian and German as well as having an amazing command of English. He loved antiquated phrases, dry sarcasm, military jargon, regional dialect, and the New York Times cross
... See moreAnthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential
Meanwhile, given that everything we write comes to us via the many lenses of the experiences we’ve accumulated across a life—we speak of trees, for example, according to what we know of trees by actual experience and through what we’ve experienced of trees in books, movies, nursery rhymes, and more—then everything we do is at some level research fo... See more
Devin Kelly • Carl Phillips's "Delicately, Slow, the World Comes Back"
All good New Yorkers know that to live in, and love, the city takes a certain amount of chutzpah—you have to be ready, at a moment’s notice, to push your way through the throngs, shout your coffee order, rush to nab the last subway seat or the only on-duty cab. You have to be unsurprised by the consistent surprises that come with a new day in New A... See more
Why I Broke Up with New York
New York City is a place where one can weep on the sidewalk in perfect privacy.