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Literary Coffee
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On the rocks, of course. Write drunk, edit sober. Subtle reminder: “The first draft of anything is sh*t.” Ernest Hemingway
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Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. The seagull may intend to fly away, may decide to do so, may talk with the other seagulls about how wonderful it is to fly, but until the seagull flaps his wings and takes to the air, he is still on the…
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Paintings by Congolese artist Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
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“I’m inspired to see different worlds coming together; people living in chaos but partying. It’s like the beauty of a painting that at the same time represents such a harsh reality.” — Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, ‘Fragile Responsibility’
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“In coming to New Mexico, I had unexpectedly felt myself an alien—an immigrant—in my own country, and this lithic scatter reinforced this feeling. I was reminded that we Americans are interlopers on this continent; that we have built our great and towering civilization on the wreckage of a past that we know almost nothing about…
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Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its…
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Books are…
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As seen in The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity by Grant Snider
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The reading brain in a digital world
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How often do you print something out just so you can take the time to read it with more focus? In an interview with The Verge, UCLA neuroscientist and author of the forthcoming book Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Maryanne Wolf explains what tech does to the reading brain. This is a…
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Book review bingo
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When it comes to book reviews, authors have to take the good with the bad. But writer Paraic O’Donnell has created a bingo of book reviews all cliche and positive in nature. Needless to say, I’d love to see an indifferent version. But maybe that’s what the FREE SPACE is for.
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Philip Roth on naps
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“Let me tell you about the nap,” he laughs. “It’s absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and he said to me, I was maybe 9, and he said to me, ‘Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off, put…
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‘Give yourself Permission to Suck’
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If we never get started, we never get good, and you can’t get good without first being bad. To overcome perfectionism and get started, you need to accept that your first attempts will not be up to your standards. You have to give yourself Permission to Suck. David Kadavy
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Sitting decreases blood flow to the brain 🧠
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We hear it all the time. Get up and go for a walk. It’s how Walt Whitman jogged the brain so he could keep generating writing ideas. Even Steve Jobs held walking meetings. But now the science proves that taking a quick stroll reactivates the flow of blood to your brain. Scientists at Liverpool’s John…
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‘Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time’
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‘Genres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.’ — Margaret Atwood