“But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix.” BookEnoughSchoolReadingLiteratureIndividualTeacherGroupsCrowdsEnglish Teacher Author:Peter Orner
“Actually, you’re not famous at all. Maybe you’ll get some traction after you’re dead?” Traction Author:Peter Orner
“Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here’s a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down.” WayTryingHeartBookRealWould BeTodayPassionCrimePicksDareNarrativeAccomplishmentBuriedEpisodesRescueThis Is A BookAlexisLizzyCrimes Of PassionEat Your Heart Author:Peter Orner
“Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.” RealCharacterPainHumanityEnergyLossGriefHonestLosingFlawedCatharsisLosing Someone Author:Peter Orner
“John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings make, that in spite of everything, we will always make. To quote from the book, 'What he saw in the people was what the old anthropologists called communitas. It wasn't that the people sang and moved. It was their singing and moving together' Singing and moving together, Wood has found a way to express this profound and beautiful idea through fiction.” PeopleWayHumansBookIdeasTogetherBeautifulMovingFoundNamesHuman BeingsFictionSawsSingingConnectionsMovedProfoundPatientWoodsThoughtfulSpiteAnthropologists Author:Peter Orner
“Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.” NumbersIncreaseEntity Author:William of Ockham
“Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.” TwoDecisionTheoryEqualExplanationBeing EqualOccam's Razor Author:William of Ockham
“Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?” FeelsNostalgiaErasGuillotine Author:Dennis Cooper
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.” PeopleThinkingWantLittlesFactsRiskLonelyGoing AwayLove SomeoneRisk It Book:Guide Source: Guide
“I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.” ThinkingRichMediumsPornography Author:Dennis Cooper