The Kansas City Star stylebook that Ernest Hemingway once credited with containing “the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing” can be found online, in plain text, here. The deteriorated facsimile is here.
The City Sojourner #3: Venice at Gaucho – Summary: How do I save money in Venice? You don’t.
‘… [L]ife just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens. The O.J. Simpson trial lasted months, and much of it was deadly dull. Stories solve this problem—as the critic Clive James once put it, “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.’ The Pleasures of Imagination by Paul Bloom at the Chronicle Review
The War of Art: An Interview with Steven Pressfield “… it never gets easier. You still have to slay the dragon every morning.”
It’s a couple months old and I don’t know how I missed it, but you must read this Vanity Fair feature on “the unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.” (Also, the second incarnation is up at exiledonline.com)
“The main thing we’re contributing back is the advancement of the idea of internet culture to more and more people … just the sheer growing acceptance of user submitted content and the fact that we can affect popular culture.”
“You laugh about this but we may be on the forefront of Internet culture becoming most dominant culture in the world … through the power of the internet and through the community.”
(via Technorati)
Be clever, vulgar, funny, sarcastic, mean, sad, or drunk, as long as you’re creative. (100 words or less.)
Send your response to submit at tangiblemotion dot com, or post it in the comments below. The best entries will be published with author credit. Winner gets a free hypertext plug and bragging rights.
Deadline: 02/15 Tuesday at 11:59 PM, EST.
UPDATE: Results posted here with runners-up. Joshua David takes first.
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”
Orson Scott Card
