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Written LivesTheir words
I had a lot of fun reading it, thanks to Elisa Gabbert's annual year-end list of every book she read.
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BrothersTheir words
Alex Van Halen's memoir Brothers is the 3rd good book I've read about Van Halen.
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Story of A PoemTheir words
Could a book be more up my alley? The way he unpacks his feelings about giftedness, overachieving, language, disability, and difference really spoke to me.
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Four QuartetsTheir words
A re-read of one of my favorite books of poetry, and an excellent traveling companion
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MuybridgeTheir words
I think this book is a contemporary masterpiece? A cartoonist at the top of his game, a perfect meeting of subject and medium, and beautiful book design by Drawn and Quarterly.
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War and PeaceTheir words
While reading War and Peace, I marveled over and over again at how something written so long ago can be so applicable to our times while still being very much of its own time.
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Anna KareninaTheir words
I love Tolstoy because you get a third of a way into his book about a lady having an affair and the best chapter is about a dude experiencing a state of "flow" while mowing a field with his country peasants.
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Tolstoy: A BiographyTheir words
A.N. Wilson's Tolstoy: A Biography is excellent.
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A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett GiamattiTheir words
That's the opening of "The Green Fields of the Mind," collected in this slim, wonderful volume. Recommended if you like thinking about America, baseball, and The Odyssey.
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The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing StoriesTheir words
One of the most gorgeously-produced books I read, with illustrations by Matthew Forsythe.
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Train DreamsTheir words
It's as sad and beautiful as I remembered, but also funnier.
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Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through ItTheir words
Booth's formally trained (and her grandparents are watercolor artists!) but her use of color is just so free and unexpected, it makes you want to experiment yourself and join along in the fun.
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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the SixtiesTheir words
I think the absolute best book I've ever read about The Beatles is Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties.
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On Conan DoyleTheir words
I also read critic Michael Dirda's On Conan Doyle, a lovely short book I'd never heard of that I spotted on the shelf at the library — hooray for the serendipity of the stacks!
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The Hedgehog and The FoxTheir words
Probably the most illuminating thing I read about Tolstoy was Isaiah Berlin's long essay, The Hedgehog and The Fox.
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Art Work: On The Creative LifeTheir words
This book has more of a DGAF tone than Hold Still, I think, and it works best for me when Mann is telling stories instead of trying to extract a lesson for the reader.
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Love is a Mix TapeTheir words
Several people recommended this memoir to me after learning about my monthly mixtape project.
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Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s NebraskaTheir words
I love the beginning of the book when Zane just lists the stuff that Springsteen was into while he was making Nebraska
7 September 2024
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The notebook is the place where you figure out what’s going on inside you or what’s rattling around. And then, the keyboard is the place that you go to tell people about it.
7 September 2023
From one piece Read terrible books, too 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What you want to avoid, I think, is mediocre writing, which neither thrills nor instructs.
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Reading bad work is instructive as well as reassuring, so a maker should not read only the good stuff.Their words
Yes! Reading bad writing not only boosts one’s confidence, it can be very instructive.
12 October 2022
From one piece Starting from scraps 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Hence, the necessity of shitty first drafts.
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Writing gets better when it is handled physically, like a collage of scraps pushed around, rather than composed.Their words
I’m constantly on a quest to make writing more hands on — more manipulative, in the sense that you’re using your hands to shape it. The more I treat writing like one of my collages, the better it gets.
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