Every book that changed my life has been one part of a larger process that has also included accompanying practices, traditions, and relationships, related to the book in such a way that the book would have had almost no power without them

This is the kind of stuff I like now that likes are private

When I was growing up it was common to hear people say that you shouldn’t meet up with people from the internet

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Three days left to apply. ditrapanofoundation.submittable.com/submit

From Patricia Highsmith’s diary

Man Camp walt john pearce

Damn the opening paragraph of Hillbilly Elegy kinda hits

Thank you Pitbull

MFA / NYC Reading alone

Now is a great time to buy or post about my novel, The Novelist amazon.com/Novelist-Novel…

Stated another way: do you think every Christian sect for 1,900 years was wrong, until an alcoholic, convicted con man who abandoned his wife and two daughters in Kansas started selling his Bible commentary in 1909?

V good

Joy Williams

Why do they keep doing this

You go into a bookstore and it’s 35% witch books, 15% Democrat buttons and “zany” bright socks that say “Me Want Pizza” or “F*ck you. It’s wine and cat night,” 25% novels with covers that make you have a seizure, 15% self-help and 10% pop history. Willy Wonka vibes….

"The number of people in possession of any criteria for discriminating between good and evil is very small; the number of the half-alive, hungry for any form of spiritual experience, or what offers itself as experience, high or low, good or bad, is considerable." - T.S. Eliot