“With every draft I read aloud, I tasted the words in my mouth. Salty, sweet, fatty, lean, velvet, metallic, mean. Mine. What does it feel like, tasting words you’ve stolen? Like sand, I suspect.”
Tag: 04.27.13
No One’s Discussing ‘House of Cards’ Anymore. Does That Matter?
“Television remains a collective experience, and ‘House of Cards’ was occurring outside the social pale — a humbling experience for those who attempt to drive the conversation. But more important, it’s a hugely contrarian argument in the digital universe.”
How Edna O’Brien Came To Write ‘Country Girls’ (And Everything Else)
“There was a great suspicion on my mother’s part about writing. My mother, who was a very gifted woman, hated and mistrusted the written word. It was as if she felt it was redolent of sin.”
The Autry Museum Of The American West Gets A New Director
“He’s known as a dapper dresser, sporting an assortment of check-patterned garments during a recent interview, along with the suspenders that have been his sartorial signature since his first career as an attorney with a practice focused on Native American concerns.”
The Many Reasons Not To Love (Or Like, Or Patronize) Amazon
“The network is so widespread, who really knows what’s going on? A few lines of code in a near-boundless database, a stack of books in a vast warehouse, a couple of employees in a global corporation; all of these are linked by unaccountable systems.”
Can Soap Operas Survive Online (And If Not, What Can)?
“If we know one thing about soap opera characters, it’s that when they die, it’s not always permanent. It turns out the same is true of these soaps.”