January 2010
18 posts
I was thinking about people being ecstatically...
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox)
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Will Atkins' Author Truths.
Writers’ block is a myth
Deleting a thousand words can be more productive than writing two thousand
A day spent thinking can be more fruitful than a day spent typing
One writer’s ‘research’ is another’s displacement activity
A novel is never finished - just abandoned
Will Atkins is publisher of MacMillan New Writing. Via the excellent London Writers...
Australian band Cloud Control do their very best...
New Releases.
So the start of the year seems to be a bumper month for music. Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend, Spoon, Beach House, and Midlake are all releasing new albums. For me all exciting albums by exciting bands. But if I hear one more word about who I should be listening to in 2010 from the BBC or any other website that listens to the BBC, I will never listen to any of the bands on those fucking lists ever...
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you...”
– James Pendergraph, former executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination. From a Nation article on America’s immigration prisons. From Boing Boing.
