January 25, 2012
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Suzzy Roche is mostly known as the youngest member of the three-sister band The Roches… What might be less well known is that Suzzy Roche—who is now in her mid-fifties—is part of a larger musical clan: with the folk singer Loudon Wainwright she has a daughter, Lucy, who is also a singer-songwriter and whose half-siblings are Rufus and Martha Wainwright, the children of Kate McGarrigle of the much-loved McGarrigle Sisters.

The Roche-Wainwright-McGarrigle intertwinings comprise a musical family the sprawling brilliance of which has not been experienced perhaps since—well, we wonʼt say the Lizst-Wagners—but at least the Carter-Cashes.

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— Lorrie Moore in the New York Review of Books, January 10. (via upstairsatthesquare)

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January 25, 2012
This is our show tomorrow night - it’s 7 p.m. Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC. I’ll be in conversation with Suzzy Roche - that’s right, of the Roche Sisters - about her first novel and she’ll be joined in song by her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche. Free, because we love you. 

This is our show tomorrow night - it’s 7 p.m. Union Square Barnes and Noble in NYC. I’ll be in conversation with Suzzy Roche - that’s right, of the Roche Sisters - about her first novel and she’ll be joined in song by her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche. Free, because we love you. 

(Source: upstairsatthesquare)

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January 13, 2012
Carpetbagger: Seeking Wisdom From José Saramago

A young documentarian talks about why he decided to film José Saramago and his wife, Pilar del Rio, in the last years before the writer’s death.

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January 12, 2012
Kodak: A Thousand Words - Michael Crouser: A Mid-Career Retrospective

If you’re in New York, it’s well worth it to check out this quietly powerful show.

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December 20, 2011
City Room: Visiting a Forest at Its Most Elemental

Autumn Unfolds, Week 13: In Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan, leaves have blown into the hollows, revealing an emerald carpet of moss.

Reading this will make you happy. I promise.

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December 8, 2011
fyeahafrica: A statue of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, with one of his eyes bandaged, is seen in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 8, 2011. The bandaged eye is a reference to the eye wounds many protesters sustained in clashes with security forces at the end of November. Ph: Khaled Elfiqi / EPA

fyeahafrica:

A statue of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, with one of his eyes bandaged, is seen in Cairo, Egypt, on Dec. 8, 2011.

The bandaged eye is a reference to the eye wounds many protesters sustained in clashes with security forces at the end of November.

Ph: Khaled Elfiqi / EPA

(Source: dynamicafrica, via npr)

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December 8, 2011
"Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around it, put the date that you’re doing the copying out, and then copy it out. You’ll find that you just soak into that prose, and you’ll find that the comma means something, that it’s there for a reason, and that that adjective is there for a reason, because the copying out, the handwriting, the becoming an apprentice—or in a way, a servant—to that passage in the book makes you see things in it that you wouldn’t see if you just moved your eyes over it, or even if you typed it. If your verbal mind isn’t working, then stop trying to make it work by pushing, and instead, open that spiral notebook, find a book that you like, and copy out a couple paragraphs."

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Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon

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(via austinkleon)

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December 8, 2011
Hysterical.

Hysterical.

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December 8, 2011
npr: prostheticknowledge: Godzilla Christmas Tree Yes, a Christmas tree in the form of Godzilla … Godzilla-shaped Christmas tree spews smoke, Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall, Tokyo, Japan. (2006) I saw this on Tumblr’s Radar, so there’s probably no point in re-blogging it. But I can’t help myself. It made laugh. —Wright So, so awesome.

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prostheticknowledge:

Godzilla Christmas Tree

Yes, a Christmas tree in the form of Godzilla …

Godzilla-shaped Christmas tree spews smoke, Aqua City Odaiba shopping mall, Tokyo, Japan. (2006)

I saw this on Tumblr’s Radar, so there’s probably no point in re-blogging it. But I can’t help myself. It made laugh. —Wright

So, so awesome.

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December 8, 2011
Imagine spending a week doing nothing but working on how you can make a difference in the world with your words. AND having a great time. Life-changing and fun - c’mon, join me. 

Imagine spending a week doing nothing but working on how you can make a difference in the world with your words. AND having a great time. Life-changing and fun - c’mon, join me. 

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