John Colapinto

I'm finally reading Updike (Rabbit, Run), and it seems to me that the opening of DFW's The Pale King—whose prose style is very different from the rest of the book or anything else by Wallace—might be some kind of parody of/homage to the style of the great "penis with a thesaurus"

whew boy I can’t stand this sort of stuff from EAST OF EDEN

Most writers, myself included, will never produce a sentence even half this good.

What great books have humans written the last 20 years? The publishing industry was already garbage

Trump: I can't believe it took me 9 years to come up with Dumocrats. You take the E out, replace it with a U. Most people don't know, dumb. They all think that dumb doesn't have a B.

Was @JohnColapinto involved and if not, why not?

Vincent D’Onofrio was pissed when he found out his Orson Welles cameo in Ed Wood had been dubbed over by Maurice LaMarche (the voice of The Brain from Animaniacs). He didn’t stay mad; he channelled it into Five Minutes, Mr Welles, winning acclaim for his performance as Orson.

The box-office failure of BLOW OUT was, I think, a tragedy for De Palma and for John Travolta—it’s just about the best work each of them has ever done. But it probably served as a warning to some of the people who might have wanted to do something politically sophisticated.

Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture" "As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves." "Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus" "Freedom and life must be earned every single day" "Every day" "Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one." My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.

Autofiction that first supposes prodigious, painstaking memory (a scene that lasts 80 pages) and then revokes it in the next section, claiming “no memory of childhood.” What is this sorcery.

NEW: Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer Bryan Freedman sends statement: For many years, Maria Bartiromo hosted three number one rated television shows on Fox channels. She has been, without question, one of the hardest working journalists throughout her award winning career. The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false. Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise. Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth. Bryan Freedman, Attorney for Maria Bartiromo

[DON'T LOOK NOW] This new Gothic of Roeg's is baby talk joined to dislocation. And isn't that just what Warhol was doing? Only Roeg joins the cool indifference to rich elegance. Maybe it's from the tension between the two that we get that faint, erotic vertigo. (1973)