Beautiful Ruins is a wonderful book! I really love Fates & Furies, too. If you liked Beautiful Ruins, try Alexander Chee’s The Queen of the Night. I also recommend The Night Guest by Fiona Mc...
“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things. This arcane bit of knowledge is respoken every day into the ears of readers of great books, and als...
thelithub : > Announcing the panelists for @readandbreathe > ‘s second Red Ink Series > : Eileen > Myles, Ruth Ozeki, Porochista Khakpour, Anna March, & Alexandra > Klee...
thelithub : > Announcing Red Ink, @readandbreathe > ‘s series on women > writers > ! > The name is inspired by this v. inspiring quote from Mrs Dalloway. > > The s...
From the essay “Hours in a Library” in GRANITE AND RAINBOW by Virginia Woolf.
My most prized possession: a first printing of Virginia Woolf’s A LETTER TO A YOUNG POET. Virginia was born on this day in 1882.
“The writer has to see everything – you have to see not just the highway but what’s beyond the headlights; what’s standing out in the trees; you have to know what earth looks like from th...
From FELICITY by Mary Oliver
“Unless you’re a doubter and a worrier, a nail biter, an apologizer, a rethinker, then memoir may not be your playpen. That’s the quality I’ve found most consistently in those lifestory w...
“First, I chop off their hair. Then, I cover their plastic bodies in fluorescent, puffy paint, tattooing them with crude words. When I’m finished, their stiff outfits are crumpled beside them...
The view from where I’m writing today. #Paris #11tharrondissement (at Pure Café)
Working Class Heroes: 10 Great Books for the 99% : My latest piece for B&N Review!
❤️❤️❤️ From WHAT ABOUT THIS: COLLECTED POEMS OF FRANK STANFORD.
“Busyness is an excuse, a way to sidestep others, even those we actually care about. A bit of joy is had in turning on whichever device, that portal that siphons the mind away from the here and...
“Where do any of us come from? Is it a country? A mother? Or is it perhaps an image, a song, a story inside which we feel…named?” - from THE SMALL BACKS OF CHILDREN by Lidia Yuknavitch
“We document other people’s lives in order to understand our own, in order to humanize history, in order to make a narrative out of everything. One person’s life can be told in many differe...
“Where we read is almost as crucial as what we read. Solitude is hard to find; especially when you live in a city or share your home with someone else. There are always other things demanding o...
nationalbook : > Get tickets to the greatest basketball game in literary history > and help middle school > students in Detroit fall in love with reading. > > On J...
thelithub : > Interested in meaningful, well-written novels about female > friendships? readandbreathe > has just the list > for you. My latest piece for thelithub !
From THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick.