“I used to feel that the novel output of Fitzgerald was like the literary version of the Myers Briggs test: whichever one a person favored was some fundamental indicator of his or her personality. Roughly it followed that ordinary and banal people liked The Great Gatsby, snotty, effete types liked This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned was for the discerning and unconventional (I’ll let you guess in which camp I numbered myself).” — Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night
Gary Shteyngart in a Daily Beast questionnaire. No one came. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/12/26/gary-shteyngart-how-i-write.html
Ben Sollee at the Opera House. (at Lexington Opera House)
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But, each year, there are more Americans whose cultural roots lie elsewhere. Each year, there are more people from different cultures, with different attitudes toward authority, different attitudes about individualism, different ideas about what makes people enterprising.
More important, people in these groups are facing problems not captured by the fundamental Republican equation: more government = less vitality.
” — David Brooks
Media room. (Taken with Instagram)
My hero in the flesh: @chucktodd (Taken with Instagram)
North Limestone mural in progress. (Taken with Instagram)
North Lime Coffee and Donuts verdict: very yummy. (Taken with Instagram at North Lime Coffee & Donuts)
“Time is everything. I am 55 now, and my first grandchild is expected in June. It has been many years since I was a young man, let alone an apprentice writer. But the eager, fearful, self-hectoring spirit of the beginner is slow to fade. With my 8th book just begun - and with deep regret for the desolate wastes of time that have kept it from being my 10th or 12th - I feel I haven’t really started yet. And I suppose this rather ludicrous condition will persist, for better or worse, until my time runs out.” —
The New York Times Book Review, April 19, 1981
Another new authorial obsession. (Taken with Instagram)