Fredrik Backman—A Man Called Ove
Fates and Furies
It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. […]
Pay attention kids, THIS is how you homeown.
Thirteen Ways of Looking
Curious thing, the snow. They say the Eskimos have eighty words for it. An articulate lot. Slush and sleet and firn and grain. Hoar and rime. Crust crystal vapor blizzard graupel. Pendular permeable planar. Striated shear supercooled. Brittle glazed clustered coarse broken. An insult of snow, a slur of snow, a taunt of snow, a […]
Your move, Bright.
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Did You Ever Have A Family
Probably, there will always be wrinkled noses, folks who make jokes about the Moonstone dykes or the little boy on the rez who likes to wear his mom’s earrings, or me, the half-breed, bastard bitch who lives with her sisters. It stops when we die and goes on for those we leave behind. All we […]
Midnight’s Children
Reality can have metaphorical content; that does not make it less real. —Salman Rushdie
Pantone Smoothies
Paper Towns
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. —John Green
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. Not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from, in most cases. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. The more violently you hack at the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself. It can […]
Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist
Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her […]
Fishing the Sloe Black River
Give life long enough and it’ll solve all your problems, even the problem of being alive. —Colum McCann, “Step We Gaily, On We Go”
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
There’d be no wars today, If mothers all would say, I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier. —Betty Smith
What does it take to revive a masterwork?
The Snow Child
I love you, child, she whispered. Faina’s face was quiet and kind. I wish to be the mother you are to me, she said so softly Mabel doubted her own ears. But those were the words she spoke, and Mabel took them into her heart and held them there forever. —Eowyn Ivey
Gilead
I can tell you this, that if I’d married some rosy dame and she had given me ten children and they had each given me ten grandchildren, I’d leave them all, on Christmas Eve, on the coldest night of the world, and walk a thousand miles just for the sight of your face, your mother’s […]
First and Final Frames
First and Final Frames from Jacob T. Swinney on Vimeo.
30 for 30 Shorts: The Anti-Mascot
Our latest film, directed by Colin Hanks, tells the story of how a bad team and an even worse idea were an ugly combination in San Francisco. Source: 30 for 30 Shorts: The Anti-Mascot «
A Little Life
You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to […]
