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FOLK TALK: Cigarillo by Shelagh Power-Chopra

at The Rumpus.

theparisreview:

“Some of the one-paragraph stories I wrote before the novel took weeks of revision. I’d go mad with concern over semicolons. Conjunctions ruined my sleep. I wanted no needless sound in my sentences. I hated to use adverbs because of the ‘ly

’ endings. They seemed like sloopy trailers. They made the sense mushy and weak and artificial. I didn’t want to mean anything beyond what could inhere in the particular limited aural sensation. Idea and sound had to be exactly the same length, or the same density, as if a word could be flesh. That used to be my idea of real writing. Sculptural.” —Leonard Michaels

Read more of our lost interview with the American writer here.

lastbummer:

Fantasmes recently did a live in-studio performance of a couple of their songs here in Brooklyn while in the midst of their Northeast tour. Video coming soon! 

omgitzjose:

oh no!

Illuminated.

lestercorp:

David Bowie and Nicolas Roeg on the set of The Man Who Fell To Earth

(via jewahl)

(via commodoredanny)

wordbrooklyn:

This is what happens when you finish Infinite Jest: someone buys you an Enfield Tennis Academy t-shirt.

Where do I get this?!

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