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  • Jeffrey Eugenides Advice to Young Writers @ The New Yorker

    To follow literary fashion, to write for money, to censor your true feelings and thoughts or adopt ideas because they’re popular requires a writer to suppress the very promptings that got him or her…

  • Pimentón de la Vera

    another etsy.com treasury… smoky spicy burnt orange zing crackle toast to late autumn… (paprika is my favorite; smoked paprika is the bomb). Pimentón de la Vera by Alicia Grega on Etsy.

  • summer kisses, winter tears

    Really loving this original polymer clay piece I threw on at the last minute today. I made the leaves with summer beach scenes in mind but the bleached colors look sweet in winter light…

  • whiskers on kittens

    Seems like the front page of Etsy gets “whiter” every time I look at it. Inspired by the white modernist sculpture I featured, I decided to literally create a collection of white on white,…

  • HUGE find: that’s dedication

    I’m listening to the audio book of Donald Barthleme’s Sixty Stories collection. As I walked into “the news factory” where I work today I was tickled by the following line and felt compelled to…

  • what don’t you know?

    Nathan Englander on writing “what you know”: “When I was dreaming of being a writer from suburbia, I thought, what am I going to do, write novels about going to the mall? It took…

  • In a nutshell… yeah.

    “Tangentially, its possible that grunge has been temporarily or permanently exiled based on what it begat. Who wants to claim Pearl Jam or Soundgarden as an influence after a parade of Creed and other…

  • Anaïs Nin on Embracing the Unfamiliar via Brain Pickings

    Artistic revolt, innovation, experiment should not be met with hostility. They may disturb an established order or an artificial conventionality, but they may rescue us from death in life, from robot life, from boredom,…

  • things are always changing … including the past?

    Like this idea… been rethinking a lot of things I thought I knew or had made my mind up about lately only to discover they look different from here, from now. -ag Munro is…