January 2012
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Daylit astronomy →
I have been inseparable from The Cloudspotter’s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds after receiving it as a gift a few days ago. In it, I’ve just learned of “cloud streets:”
Low clouds can line up parallel to the wind to form Cumulus radiatus. Also known as ‘cloud streets’, they’re the Roman roads of the cloud road.
See also: So irregular is their movement that when physicists...
How To Be Emotionally Stable Without Getting Bored... →
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“Half the fear of failure is of the judgment of false friends we feel compelled...”
– Alain de Botton
“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a...”
– Joan Didion
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Missoni Autumn/Winter 2012 →
best. knits. ever.
give me.
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Holding On & Letting Go - Ross Copperman
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Finally
a fiction writing professor who permits genre.
i thought they didn’t exist.
11:11.
never stop doing what you love. be ambitious.
burying my unfounded worries in an omelette.
yes, i’m healthy.
A Great Need
Out
Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
—Hafiz (c. 1320 to 1389), translated by Daniel Ladinsky
“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their...”
– Nic Sheff
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What? ...”
– C.S. Lewis
“I was home, the sort of home that you know like the back of your hand and yet...”
– Casey Lefante, “Love Letter”
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‘Why Write Novels at All?’ →
fwriction:
But then I picked up Eugenides’s new novel, “The Marriage Plot,” an exuberantly bookish book that offers the clearest account to date of his cohort’s collective aspirations and anxieties. There is, it turns out, a unifying thread; it’s just not a matter of form. The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer “How should novels be?” but “Why...
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