Pixel Picks – weekly links from around the web: interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Enjoy. On being a vandal: An essay on Lit Hub about the joys of ruining a good book! Fold that page, crack that spine, write in that margin. Other Lives: A short story in The New Yorker about the countless […]
Read more "Pixel Picks. V"Upon my first true reread of the series (I have not reread the entire series all in one go), I endeavor to write A Series of Unfortunate Sonnets: one sonnet written for each book. The sonnets will probably be rubbish (you could even say unfortunate), but nonetheless, it will be an experiment of my creativity. […]
Read more "A Series of Unfortunate Sonnets: The End"Club, society, order, alliance, league, union, fellowship – words that summon thoughts of insiders, trysts, beauty, intelligence, schemes, and most of all – secrets. And as we know, secrets are power. Secret societies are breeding grounds for great stories, so it is understandable that so much literature is focused on these elite, if not impossibly […]
Read more "Secret Societies in Literature"I needed, for months after he died, to remember our rooms— some lit by the trivial, others ample with an obscurity that comforted us: it hid our own darkness. So for months, duteous, I remembered: rooms where friends lingered, rooms with our beds, […]
Read more "Literary Wardrobe: Rooms Remembered"Pixel Picks – weekly links from around the web: interviews, articles, essays, poetry, fiction and non. Enjoy. On what makes a good bookseller: An article about the manager of my local bookstore and how she know exactly what book you should read next. A harrowing story: I am partway through the Patrick Melrose novels, and this […]
Read more "Pixel Picks. IV"Upon my first true reread of the series (I have not reread the entire series all in one go), I endeavor to write A Series of Unfortunate Sonnets: one sonnet written for each book. The sonnets will probably be rubbish (you could even say unfortunate), but nonetheless, it will be an experiment of my creativity. […]
Read more "A Series of Unfortunate Sonnets: The Penultimate Peril"I just finished watching a Woody Allen movie, and I loved it. Woody Allen movie are my guilty pleasure – and I say that in earnest. Unlike other ‘guilty pleasures’ – chocolate, rereading Harry Potter, sleeping in – I actually feel guilty when I watch Woody Allen movies, and everyone can probably guess why. It has been […]
Read more "Love the Art, not the Artist"