Started it today because dammit we all need more Fitzgerald in our lives. Here’s a passage I quite love:
Early in his career Adam Patch had married an anaemic lady of thirty, Alicia Withers, who brought him one hundred thousand dollars and an impeccable entré into the banking circles of New York. Immediately and rather spunkily [...]
“And down there in the dark I can see the real truth about me.
as clear as day, lord if I make it through tonight”
-John Darnielle
In the first section of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, he gives us the stand-alone short story The Book of the Grotesque. Only seven or so pages long, The Book of the [...]
An excerpt on Jerry Falwell taken from A.J. Jacobs’s The Year of Living Biblically:
Falwell—who died several months after my visit—embodied a certain ultraliteral brand of Christianity. For decades he was the go-to guy when the mainstream media wanted a quote from the Chritian right about homosexuality or abortion. He was the liberal’s nightmare, the man [...]
Check out titlepage.tv
It is, as the mission statement describes, passionate conversations about books. It just debuted today and will be airing new episodes each week, I believe. I’ll surely be tuning in.
Friend of the site, John Williams, is the Online Editor for the Titlepage.tv, and can be found also at his blog, A Special Way [...]
Towards the end of Part I of Saul and Patsy, Delia explains to her eponymous daughter-in-law that she’s taken a lover. Jimmy, Delia’s seventeen year old yard boy, is a secret only a few know about. Patsy asks her whether it’s an “American novel or a French novel.” When asked about the difference, she [...]
“The person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, [...] love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
-From Stoner by John Williams
Argot
Pavane
Reticence
Tinnitus
Trilby
Vertiginous
Puerile
Pugilist
“Words I Learned” is an ongoing survey of the improvement of my vocabulary, inspecting and correcting the gaps in knowledge.
