Imagine being a talented but inexperienced writer with no connections who has spent years getting up early — before work and kids and god knows — to create something meaningful, and then seeing your words quoted and mocked here.

Redacting these GOOD ideas because they belong the writers.

The Substance had no substance.

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

Reading Adam Phillips is such a pleasure.

The books one writes-past and present and future-are they not trying to say the same thing:Dear friend,from my life I write to you in your life? What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance,if things can be let go,every before replaced by an after.
~Yiyun Li

My father said: You have a tendency towards metaphysics
Still I schooled you in the means of production
when your milk teeth were intact
~Athena Farrokhzad

Please send starter pack suggestions on: New Hollywood, Eastern European Cinema, Detective Novels, Psychoanalysis, Transcendentalism, Postcolonial literature and David Foster Wallace.

Today is the birth anniversary of Roland Barthes.