rhyming action

White Dr. Martens for the goddaughter. APC for me.

seeing what happens

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Kiki Smith, Blue Girl, 1998

cut off

Genius cut off boots from Ascot Friday. A nod to this Golden Goose

Scout Holiday

Scout Holiday's Wish List is my wish list. 2008 too.

clamoring storm

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. Vladimir Nabokov

Syoin kajii via gotsalviento via Pour Porter

mislaid

Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had.

Warren Lasher
Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano
Charles Deats or Keats
Alfonse

Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list.

- Lorrie Moore, from "Self Help"
Illustration by Wendy MacNaughton

novels do not get easier to write

Miss Mazure's face was wildly askew. Every feature went its own way, and her nose was a large distraction

- All Souls by Christine Schutt
Image: The Ugly Earring

where art happens

The goddaughter at San Francisco Institute of Art.

you forget what you want to remember

"When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was composed on such a simple, functional, frail-looking machine, it conferred a sort of talismanic quality to Cormac's typewriter," Glenn Horowitz told the New York Times. "It's as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss army knife." NYT via Guardian.