Iris Blasi

I work in publishing. I like books and the people who read them.

Posts tagged lit

Jun 18
“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.” Paul Auster (via picadorbookroom)

Jun 17


“The muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.” Jonathan Tropper, “On Writing Without Writing”

Jun 14
Jay McInerney. Reading in a bathtub. Full of wine.
You’re welcome.
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Jay McInerney. Reading in a bathtub. Full of wine.

You’re welcome.

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Jun 13
“Dear Harry, PLEASE sell this to The New Yorker as I am VERY VERY VERY poor … I STILL HAVE NO HOT WATER. I STILL HAVE NO HOT WATER. I shall go crazy.”

W.H. Auden’s plea to an editor at The New Yorker, as recorded in his diary, which just sold at auction for $75,000

via The Awl



Jun 12
“The Kindle changed my reading habits, because I now buy books pretty much only when I’m drunk, and late at night.” Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, to The Boston Globe

“I think the first thing—if you want to be a writer—the first thing you need to do is write. Which sounds like an obvious piece of advice. But so many people have this feeling they want to be a writer and they love to read but they don’t actually write very much. The main part of being a writer, though, is being profoundly alone for hours on end, uninterrupted by email or friends or children or romantic partners and really sinking into the work and writing. That’s how I write. That’s how writing gets done.” Cheryl Strayed, in a great interview with Amitava Kumar at Guernica

Seventy-one years ago today, Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.
Pictured above is the very first page, on which she wrote, I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
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Seventy-one years ago today, Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.

Pictured above is the very first page, on which she wrote, I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.

(via)


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