Writers at Work: Jack Kerouac
Kerouac at work
On sending private messages
it’s like whispering to your companion during a dinner party: you might not get heard loud and clear, but only a fool wouldn’t take note of the possibility of leakage.
Susan Orlean on sending private messages via social media (via newyorker)
Iron Man will rock you your Planet…
Old school radio for my #Greenville friends.
Pretend it’s the 90s
The End of a Golden Age?
In the late eighteenth century, advances in steam-powered presses and machine-made paper and ink made books affordable for the masses. Before that, a family might have a Bible, but only the clergy and aristocrats owned books. According to technology historian Cathy Davidson, the sudden flood of cheap, popular books alarmed preachers, teachers, parents, and our Founding Fathers. They feared that wild tales of anarchy and romance would corrupt girls and workmen; that “novels” would ruin democracy, cause youth to lose their ability to concentrate on serious subjects, and would forever corrupt American morals. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both wrote impassioned denunciations of the horrors of reading fiction.
Urban graffiti on the Urban Outfitters building.
This thing of beauty I see in the morning fog.
Nightstand reading
I’ve been told my taste in books is eclectic.
Showtime with Over the Rhine!
Lucy Wainwright Roche opening for Over the Rhine at The Peel.
Coffee with Iron Man.
All that remains in the garden are the marigolds.
Asheville’s Runaway Circus
Asheville’s Runaway Circus just flat out know how to put on a fun show. We’re so fortunate to have them perform in our little Ice Cream shop 🙂
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Looks like a ground hog ate my garden for breakfast.
Don’t burn books
Last night at the Kava Bar
Open mic tribal jam session with the American Gonzos at the Kava Bar.
The American Gonzos setting up for their song ‘39 Steps’ at the Kava Bar. #avlent
Asher & Nick at the Kava Bar open mic. #avlent
River Rats setting up for a bluesy set called ‘Riverside’ at the Kava Bar.
Caleb reads a Lorca translation at the Kava Bar open mic.
“Blogs look to me illiterate”
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look to me illiterate, they look hasty, like someone babbling. To me writing is a considered act. It’s something which is a great labor of thought and consideration. A blog doesn’t seem to have any literary merit at all. It’s a chatty account of things that have happened to that particular person.
Paul Theroux discusses blogging, travel writing, “Three Cups of Tea,” and his new book “The Tao of Travel.” Read the whole interview at The Atlantic. (via theatlantic)
“The poet should speak to all men”
The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell (via nathanielstuart1)
NOTES:
1) nathanielstuart, June 7, 2011, (page no longer available, web site is still active, accessed April 27, 2024, https://www.tumblr.com/nathanielstuart)
The trap of ‘writing about yourself’
Rarely do I read anything published on Gawker, but this is a good read for writers using social media.
Writing about yourself as a character is a process that feeds on itself. If you set out with the intent of making yourself a “brand” with a certain image and persona, you are locking yourself in a prison of your own creation. (via gawker)1
NOTES:
1) Hamilton Nolan, “The Writing about yourself Trap,” May 24, 2011, Gawker, accessed June 6, 2011, https://gawker.com/5804980/the-writing-about-yourself-trap (page no longer available, web site deactivated in 2023)
Coffeehouse Junkie 