January 2012
40 posts
“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via thatkindofwoman)
“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific. But when you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via suzywire)
The LARB Interview: Helen DeWitt
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Prose and Poetry Journeys © Brian Dettmer 2011 Courtesy of the Artist and Black Rat Projects
Helen DeWitt is the author of The Last Samurai, Your Name Here, and Lightning Rods, which I reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books here [link]. She also maintains a blog at paperpools.blogspot.com. We conducted this interview over email last month (as the inserted images...
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“There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because...”
– Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
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“Joey: Suicide is often associated with mental illness. But in your work...”
– Helen Dewitt on suicide.
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Translation of The Complete Manual of Suicide's...
geefitch:
The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru, lit. Complete Suicide Manual) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi. It was first published on July 4, 1993 and sold more than one million copies. This 198 page book provides explicit descriptions and analysis on a wide range of suicide methods such as overdose, hanging, jumping, and carbon monoxide...
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“The book neither encourages nor discourages suicide, and as well does not tell...”
– Wiki article about “The Complete Manual of Suicide” by Wataru Tsurumi
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“i’ll take the first born in every house in town”
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“most of the time
what defines a man
is not where he comes from
but from the...”
– (via tinhead)
December 2011
7 posts
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
– Fernando Pessoa (via moldavia)
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November 2011
12 posts
back door beauty?
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