February 2012
1 post
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via libraryland)
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
16 posts
W. W. Norton: A Year on Tumblr →
wwnorton:
Some of our favorite (and your most liked/reblogged) Tumblr posts of 2011:
- How to Write an Important Novel
- To a Friend in Love with the Wrong Man Again
- How to Curse a Book Thief
- Someone is Writing a Poem, an essay by Adrienne Rich
- Literature is the Sharpest Tool in…
November 2011
6 posts
“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
– Herman Melville (Moby-Dick)
“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via dissentients)
October 2011
4 posts
“the actual
human slavery
of men who didn’t
know
that they were
slaves”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...”
– Victor Hugo (via libraryland)
September 2011
1 post
5 tags
August 2011
3 posts
3 tags
June 2011
5 posts
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted...”
– David Foster Wallace (via wordpainting) (via libraryland)
May 2011
7 posts
“The sky is an eye.
The dusk and the dawn are the blood that feeds the...”
– David Foster Wallace
“For decades, we have held in contempt those who actively celebrate death. When...”
– http://www.salon.com/news/osama_bin_laden/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/02/osama_and_chants_of_usa (via brianwood)
April 2011
18 posts
