Friday, June 12, 2009

nobody believes the wind has fingers




Thomas Voorhies
lives and works in Highland Park, CA:











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"Take an already written work of your own and insert, at random or by choice, a paragraph or section from, for example, a psychology book or a seed catalogue. Then study the possibilities of rearranging this work or rewriting the source."

Writing Experiments
by
Bernadette Mayer




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"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed," West said. "I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life," he said."





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"She lay near the skate ramps. Nothing is still like the dead are still. The wind moves their hair, as it moved hers, and they don't respond at all. She was in an ugly pose, with legs crooked as if about to get up, her arms in a strange bend. Her face was to the ground. A young woman, brown hair pulled into pigtails poking up like plants. She was almost naked, and it was sad to see her skin smooth that cold morning, unbroken by gooseflesh. She wore only laddered stockings, one high heel on."


from The City & The City
a new novel by China MiƩville




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"Reference, brevity, self-restraint, attention outside the self, material objects as models, Williams and his heirs as predecessors, classical lyric and epigram as precedents: all these, together, constitute the New Thing."

"The New Thing"
by
Stephen Burt




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Glass Candy - "Gheto Boys" Live at 2008 Midi Festival French Riviera





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The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
by
Larry McCaffery




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