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Junot Díaz at St. Francis College, 4/16/15

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Infinite Jest, Page 218: "Luminescence"

"Luminescence," erasure poetry from page 218 of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.

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In the same league as Elvis was Patsy Cline. A tough cookie, she referred to herself as “the Cline” and everyone else as “hoss”—except for Elvis, who she called “the big hoss.” When Nashville’s WSN asked where she got her distinctive style from, she told them, “Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.” In short order, she had Top 20 hits in 1961and ’62 with “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” and “She’s Got You.” The Nashville sound has its detractors, but its hushed minimal backing was all Cline needed as she lived the lyric, cracking up, disintegrating in front of us. Friends said that she would cry at the end of recording sessions. Soon after cutting “Sweet Dreams” in 1963, a plane carrying her crashed into a forest in Camden, Tennessee, and she was killed.

From Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé by Bob Stanley, out now in hardcover and ebook.

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Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. […] Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

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Ursula K. Le Guin at the National Book Awards, 11/19/14

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“As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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After a period of controversy and questionable business practices all around, Hachette and Amazon sign eBook agreement.

Just in time for holiday shopping. SHOCKING.

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The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

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Here’s a couple of stills of JR Smith from the video I did for The New York Times.

You can watch the video right here.

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Rajon Rondo, wheeling past Kevin Garnett.

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In praise of finishing every book you start: “The most common defense of book-dropping I hear is that because there are more good books than any one person could possibly read, it’s stupid to waste time on a dull or otherwise unsatisfactory novel. That argument makes sense if the novel is utter trash—if it’s so bad that the reader needn’t respect the author and would possibly get dumber by going forward. But if a novel starts well and descends into trash, then it seems to me that it’s worth continuing to see if it gets better, or to see where the writer went wrong.”

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Infinite Jest, Page 208: "Performer"

"Performer," erasure poetry from page 208 of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

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Let’s just take a moment to appreciate this.

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