Quotation of the Week: Tracy Kidder
To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
–Tracy Kidder
That about sums it up, doesn’t it?
via Quotes4Writers
To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
–Tracy Kidder
That about sums it up, doesn’t it?
via Quotes4Writers
This week, the Center for Fiction (New York) launched its new website. The entire site is likely to keep you busy for awhile–sections include “for readers,” “for writers,” “audio/video,” and “awards,” among others. But perhaps the pièce de résistance is the Center’s new online magazine: The Literarian.
Go check it out. And have a great weekend.
We’ll see you back here on Monday.
Many apologies for missing last week’s lit-links post. And fair warning: I’m unlikely to post next Friday as well: I’ll be away at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference. But don’t worry: I shall return!
Shabbat shalom!
For me, at least, Yom Hashoah remains the primary Holocaust Remembrance Day of record, so to speak. But in 2005, the United Nations designed January 27 as an “annual International Day of Commemoration to honour the victims of the Holocaust” (Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945).
And yesterday, I discovered an amazing and relevant online resource: excerpts from a recording of poet Charles Reznikoff reading from his last book, Holocaust. (For background on Holocaust, read Charles Bernstein’s exceptionally instructive essay, and for information on a full CD—the product of many years of labor by Professor Abraham Ravett—please read this.)
I’ve begun listening to the excerpts. It’s not easy to listen to them consecutively, without a break. But today of all days, do try to listen to some of them.
(Thanks to the NewPages blog for this very special find.)