Reblogged from vintageanchorbooks
“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses
Irish novelist and poet James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 to John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane “May” Murray in the Dublin suburb of Rathgar. Author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914), Ulysses (1922) — which was banned in the U.S until a court decision in its favour in 1933, and Finnegan’s Wake (1939).
Little Drawings by Dilşad Aladağ
Another way of capturing life…new perspectives of moments in time.
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‘taipei’ by tao lin // vintage contemporaries, 2013
79.9
review by josh s.
***ed note: more ‘i am alt lit’ contributors will read this book, will probably concentrate on different elements, etc. thankks.***
read this book & fell asleep approx. 2-3x
read this book & ate gyros approx 1-2x
read this book & ate a hamburger i made myself 1x
read this book & spilled water on it 2x
read this book at lunch approx. 4x
read this book at home approx. the rest of the times
read this book & alternated b/w don delillo’s ‘underworld’
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Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919.
Favorite part: the chancellor excreting the dada-ists.
The handclaps? Fucking perfect.
Something about the territory and all those ideo[wah-wah-wait-for-it]grams
You’re so used to this kind of smoothness in writing, this feeling that you, the reader, or you, the writer, are this great empathic, wondrous soul. I would love to be that, but of course when we see the way we behave in the world really to other people, we’re confronted with a different version of who we are. Not just this wonderful, tolerant, broad person who sees humanity and everything, but someone a little more narrow, self-defended, sometimes cruel, sometimes selfish. I wanted to try and show that. And also, someone who—people who live in a city, who are able to switch off these famous values of empathy and tolerance and love quite suddenly when you need to. Or if you need to. I wanted to be honest about that experience, but it’s not something you want reflected back at you perhaps, it’s not a pleasure. But reading can be many things: sometimes it can be a pleasure, sometimes it’s a bit tougher. It’s a broad church that way.
What? THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH ZADIE SMITH? Why yes. Yes.
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