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"I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk, within three minutes they will show you how crazy they really are. And it has happened time and time and time again."
—Errol Morris, in conversation with Werner Herzog
"In order for something to be sacrificed, it must first be precious. After all, in one of our most famous stories of sacrifice, it is not just anyone whom Abraham is asked to kill to prove his faith in God, but his own son. And oh, how precious Eastwick once was!"
“Clearly, I was the monster-culture equivalent of the gay Midwestern kid who feels a bajillion miles away from Broadway, or the Mormon youngster who feels imprisoned until he reads Naked Lunch. The midcentury was chockablock with our kind, I know now.”
Ruth Ozeki on her first two novels, the history of potatoes, and working in the the low-budget horror industry:
DISCUSSED: Nice Girls Who Like Stuff, Abercrombie and Fitch, One-Armed Pushups, California Adolescence, Weed, The Redemptive Quality of Sensory Exploration
“What terrifies me is not death, but life, and the ego driven by desire.”
—Ahmed Naji, interviewed by Anna DeForest for their new web column on mortality
"I find it crazy that... people accept and believe in things like modern psychology, nationalities as true identities, dying for pieces of cloth called flags, but they will doubt the idea of existing after death."
—Ahmed Naji, interviewed for A Good Exit
From “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things,” an essay by Michael Atkinson:
Kristin Keane confronts death through the eye of the animal cam: www.thebeliever.net/the-magic-we...
"I can’t handle the cult of the chef as the tortured genius. At this point, it’s a disease in the restaurant world. You didn’t invent anything. You pushed some stuff together and you made it taste good."
—musician and chef Brooks Headley, interviewed by Sam Korman
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1. It is sometimes possible to define the depth of an experience by means of how radically it slows or hastens your sense of time. Swimming, fighting, nightmaring, enduring a migraine, having sex:…
Werner Herzog (real name: Werner H. Stipetic) was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw any films, television, or telephones as a…
He’s not going to like it if I write this, but Brooks Headley is a lot of people’s hero. For some of you, the hero worship might have started as far back as the early 1990s, when Headley played drums ...
