levistahl
- Reading as an effective form of vision quest was destroyed forever.--The Second Pass, savaging On the Road + more http://tinyurl.com/m6pg7l9:37 AM Jul 9th from web
- The anti-Botton/Hoffman? I just got a polite, even friendly e-mail from an author whose book I'd strongly criticized.6:15 AM Jul 7th from web
- @samarov "Pierre spent a long time pacing the room, no longer piercing the invisible enemy with his sword."--Tolstoy, not a Cubs fan?8:43 PM Jul 2nd from web in reply to samarov
- My review of the new John Crowley novels is up at the Second Pass:
<http://thesecondpass.com/?p...7:16 AM Jul 2nd from web
- Acknowledging that a writer whose work we have come to rely on is out there–alive, active–sustains us.IainSinclair http://tinyurl.com/nzg8546:49 AM Jul 2nd from web
- The Countess Tolstoy herself is a character in a great Russian novel, perhaps one by Dostoevsky rather than Tolstoy.--Elizabeth Hardwick10:03 AM Jul 1st from web
- Mann has the rare gift of creating characters out of ideas, prejudices and cultural affectations.--Elizabeth Hardwick, "Thomas Mann at 100"7:36 PM Jun 30th from web
- Dilapidation is his genius.--V. S. Pritchett, on James Boswell7:35 PM Jun 29th from web
- There is a great difference between people who are ambitious and people who are fascinated by ambition.--Anthony Powell, Writer's Notebook7:21 AM Jun 29th from web
- If you say you are a doctor, people will believe anything.--Eric Ambler, The Light of Day1:38 PM Jun 26th from web
- The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to _think_ while you walk.--Jefferson8:50 AM Jun 26th from web
- @readandbreathe Monster's Notes intriguing, but style's a bit daunting at that length. Ed Park reviewed it 4 LAT: http://tinyurl.com/lbec486:59 PM Jun 25th from web in reply to readandbreathe
- . . . that you never want to be an agenda item at a meeting to which you're not invited. --Craig Calcaterra, http://tinyurl.com/krs6mv10:45 AM Jun 24th from web
- One of the most important things I've learned in my life is . . .10:45 AM Jun 24th from web
- She was a sketch for a statue of Honesty putting its foot in its mouth.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution8:43 AM Jun 24th from web
- Sometimes it seemed to you that she was not a person, not a thing, but an idea, and a mistaken one at that.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures8:43 AM Jun 24th from web
- The really damned not only like Hell, they feel loyal to it.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures from an Institution6:51 AM Jun 23rd from web
- There was nothing she didn't feel free, feel obligated to tell you about herself: she was her own tombstone.--Randall Jarrell, Pictures1:14 PM Jun 22nd from web
- If I tweeted all the great lines in Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution, I'd bring the Fail Whale. I'll try to show restraint.1:14 PM Jun 22nd from web
- Local amenities, if they cannot explain themselves in a single sentence, vanish.--Iain Sinclair, LRB: http://tinyurl.com/nzg85411:17 AM Jun 22nd from web
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- Name Levi Stahl
- Location Chicago
- Web http://www.ivebee...
- Bio I write about books, and the answer to the question, What am I doing right now? tends to be, Reading. Thus my feed.
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