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“Less than a decade after the novel’s release, Bloom had dismissed, if not disowned, his efforts, urging his students at Yale to burn their copies, should they happen to have them.”
—Joy Williams on The Flight to Lucifer, Harold Bloom’s first and only novel
"Shitty Sandman: A small boy wearing a white suit covered in jingle bells flies through town wishing sweet dreams to all the citizens and slapping them on the eyeballs to make sure they’re really sleeping."
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The Believer
"There must be more than one gift recipient who thinks, Oh, the Booker Prize winner: That’s the book my aunt gives me because she thinks I’ve done too many drugs and had too much sex the rest of the year."
—from the newest installment of Nick Hornby's column
“Now walk. You have to take five thousand steps. Go wherever you want, but don’t walk in any puddles.”
“What happens if they get wet?” the woman asks.
“We will chastise you.”
—Tiphanie Yanique from Charlotte Amalie sandal shop Zora of St. Thomas
www.thebeliever.net/place-zora-o...
“I realized that if I wanted to become an artist, I had to learn how to be with hearing people—like, really with them, not just next to them.”
— @christine.lol in conversation with @rachelrkolb.bsky.social, now online
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
