Michael Berryhill is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University:
Shortest Mustache Between Two Points
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William Faulkner
Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden
Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden
...Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.
He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed -- love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands....
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"Homegrown in Baltimore, Whartscape is a touring music festival featuring nearly one hundred bands, thousands of attendees and a lot of sweat...."
[via cool hunting]
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Žižek on Obama’s Victory and the Financial Meltdown
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Adam has a post on Zadie Smith's New York Review of Books article about the future of the novel.
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Click here to watch the uber titillating trailer for the forthcoming Star Trek, directed by J.J. Abrams.
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Texas artist Joseph Santandrea:
Let's(2004)
Zeitgeist(2004)
