“If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening.” Jon Fosse on how writing plays transformed his craft. lithub.com/how-jon-fosse-…

…was a pleasure 🤍

“I feel just worthless today. I have to drive myself. I have used every physical excuse not to work except fake illness. I have dawdled, gone to the toilet innumerable times, had many glasses of water. Really childish.” —John Steinbeck buff.ly/3HpqLYq

"All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art." Borges on turning trauma into raw material for creation themarginalian.org/2018/10/08/bor…

‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’ theguardian.com/books/article/…

“I’ve seen academic life destroy the best writers of my generation.” —Susan Sontag buff.ly/3UO4nRr

“Now that I realize I don’t hate to write, that I just hate to work, it makes writing easier.” —Fran Lebowitz buff.ly/3uTKL3Z

“A woman can write as well as a man, but not if one of her hands is tied behind her back.” Claire Kilroy on the unpaid labor of motherhood and writing. lithub.com/necessary-yet-…

Look at this beautiful babe. Thank you Gulf Coast Journal, Katrina Dodson & Rene Karabash 💙

“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill buff.ly/3EvZP9r

Schopenhauer, the art of not reading

"I do not think I have said enough about the splintered disorder of June, July and August." — Virginia Woolf

"An exquisite peace obtains: a drowsy, golden peace, flowing honey-sweet over my dwelling, soaking it, dripping like music from the walls... A peace for gods; a divine emptiness." The pleasure of being left alone after being in company themarginalian.org/2024/06/13/ros…

Cannot wait till you all see this one ✨✨✨Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social Rene Karabash

La giovane Bekià rifiuta un matrimonio imposto e diventa una vergine giurata, appropriandosi di un’identità maschile Con un orizzonte di possibilità: la facoltà di scegliere chi essere Christian Guzzardi su “Colei che resta” (Bottega Errante) di Rene Karabash lucialibri.it/2025/02/28/la-…

La giovane Bekià rifiuta un matrimonio imposto e diventa una vergine giurata, appropriandosi di un’identità maschile Con un orizzonte di possibilità: la facoltà di scegliere chi essere Christian Guzzardi su “Colei che resta” (Bottega Errante) di Rene Karabash lucialibri.it/2025/02/28/la-…

Cover reveal ⚡️⚡️⚡️Rene Karabash Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️⚡️This babe is out in January

“I don’t think anyone really knows how a story takes shape. When it’s done you try to explain how it happened, but every effort, at least in my case, is insufficient.” —Elena Ferrante buff.ly/3qFLXGm

― Emily Dickinson

Entrance to the Sorbonne, in Paris, on May 30, 1968, during a weeks-long student occupation of the university