January 2012
7 posts
“To Pack and Wear:
2 skirts
2 jerseys or leotards
1 pullover sweater
2...”
– Joan Didion, from The White Album 1979 (via mimicries)
Some of my worst friends are books
scribnerbooks:
“A book is not company. We engage with it, argue with it, carry it around in our pockets and minds, are haunted by memories of it for years. But it doesn’t argue back, doesn’t engage, never inquires how our day has been, gives only what it wishes. Books are selfish. Everything, every word, is on their terms.
That’s what I like about them.”
—Rick Gekoski, writing in the...
