These Summer Nights in December

Poetry ~ Literature ~ Art
sugarmeows:


Untitled from Deep South (toned silver gelatin print, 1998) – Sally Mann (American, b.1951)

sugarmeows:

Untitled from Deep South (toned silver gelatin print, 1998) – Sally Mann (American, b.1951)

(via room-of-flint)

Javier Piñon

Javier Piñon

someincentive:

Nadine Maher | Moon of Unlikely Proportions, and its miniature | 2013
unseenphotofair:

Fukushima-shi, Fukushima, 2011 © Katsumi Omori/Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen

unseenphotofair:

Fukushima-shi, Fukushima, 2011 © Katsumi Omori/Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen

James Cullinane | The Spider’s Webs Are Shivering Above the Lofty Windows | 2010

James Cullinane | The Spider’s Webs Are Shivering Above the Lofty Windows | 2010

“I tear out what I want” - From John Cheever’s Paris Review Interview

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JOHN CHEEVER

I use what I love, and this can be anything. Cavalcanti, Dante, Frost, anybody. My library is terribly disordered and disorganized; I tear out what I want. I don’t think that a writer has any responsibility to view literature as a continuous process. I believe that very little of literature is immortal. I’ve known books in my lifetime to serve beautifully, and then to lose their usefulness, perhaps briefly.

INTERVIEWER

How do you “use” these books … and what is it that makes them lose their “usefulness”?

CHEEVER

My sense of “using” a book is the excitement of finding myself at the receiving end of our most intimate and acute means of communication. These infatuations are sometimes passing.

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From: John Cheever, The Art of Fiction No. 62

Interviewed by Annette Grant

Maria Sturm

Maria Sturm