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"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. " Maya Lin . Saw What is Missing? at the California Academy of ...

"As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are to not have one. Hearts will never be practical u...

"I've always felt the gap between words and things, the impossibility of articulating what's really out there in the world, the...

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Bibliotheque dress via unruly things

When she talks about meeting her birth parents, the first things Sandra McPherson mentions are the wildflowers. When the thirty-seven-year-o...

Porter and Hollister were featured in NYT today (above) and if you haven't already, vote for Porter's appearance in Mad Men by giv...

"In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment." The Wind-up Bird Chronicle , Haruki Murakami Photo NYT

Test shots of the tremendous goddaughter.

The gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it. I am the Messenger , Markus Zusak Photo: The Selby

"But any question of the moral inevitably raises — for the artist, at least — the question of the beautiful." John Banville in con...

Paul Auster: There's a great entry in Kafka's diaries in which he describes an imaginary writer in the process of giving a public re...

At the end of the drama THE TRUTH — which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied — prevails. And that is how we know the Dram...

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christoph...

Lucy Corin loves Frank O’Hara’s "Morning." Photo Sally Singer, The Selby

"I was married ten years ago, on a brazenly warm day in January, from my father's house, in a dress my mother made, with the same b...

A sorta completely genius post from Now Voyager .

"Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." E.L. Konigsburg, The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World Photo via Either the Drap...

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open." Dorothy Allison Via Lucy Corin

“. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of...

I don't care if it's sunny outside, the only thing to do right now is listen to Mavis Staples on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me . It ...

Leonard Cohen in concert tomorrow and our own Conspiracy of Beards playing a pre-show show at the Paramount. More info here .

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in...

For Clara and Glenn. Sister Mary Corita 's rules can never be posted enough.

Nick Cave's astounding exhibit at Yerba Buena reminded me of Phyllis Galembo's West African photographs. I saw them at Skidmore...

From the Harry Smith Archives

From today's NYT : "But where the typical...American family seems unified but is secretly divided, the group on “Big Love” seems di...

JR Art in India. Also, The Hills Have Eyes in Rio de Janiero. JR in Cambodia here.

Garance doré . It's all in how you stand .

Another must see: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents a large scale exhibit of Nick Cave's soundsuits. Through July. Tremendous. ...

[ODC/Dance's] Artistic Director Brenda Way’s new work is inspired by the experience of her late mother-in-law, Iza Erlich, who, as a tee...

"I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is a...

"The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again." Kiss of the Spider Woman , Manuel Puig...

Minirobot lets go of her Vivienne Westwood boots. Photo: Garance doré

My grandfather on his borrowed bike and me on mine.

" Writing only leads to more writing. " Colette Photo: Totokaelo

Emily and Jennifer went to The Living Desert (their photo).

I only came in here to inquire the way to the nearest cinema. I am a respectable woman, une femme convenable, on her way to the nearest cine...

From Either the Drapes Go or I Do : You walk in here and tell them you're here and they tell you there are ghosts and if there's a w...

Here . Bjork and Bernhard Willhelm, Dazed & Confused (2007)

Via Pink Ponk's amazing photostream. And this one on ebay.

"Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home." Good Morning Midnight , Jean Rhys Jil Sander flats on ebay

Japanese writer Yoko Tawada read in San Francisco this week, presented by the Center for the Art of Translation . Something in her reading ...

Some small intimacies: ici , Discotheque Confusion , emmas designblogg , Now Voyager , the ugly earring , Simple Lovely , blueberry pancake...

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps someth...

Watching Golden Door ( Nuovomundo, 2006). My papa and Lidia would like this film.

Tonight, a birthday party combining two of my favorite things: RE/Search Publications and William Burroughs. Photo from RE/Search

There's nothing here I don't want. Sabrina Dehoff at Creatures of Comfort

I've been reading Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn and this remembrance of John Updike by Lucy Corin on The Rumpus , ...