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Today, Toni Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Keats to his brothers: "I had not a dispute but a disquisition, with Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously--I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. ... This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
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(Source: king-of-the-lost)
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The Opposite of Loneliness →
This is heart-breaking, truly. Marina Keegan, Yale Class of 2012, days after Commencement, died in a car accident. She was an incredibly talented writer, and these are the words she wrote in the Yale Daily News right before her graduation. A big reminder for us to enjoy life to the fullest and to be grateful for all that we’ve been given. May she rest in peace. -
Delighted to discover amazing Jamaican writer, Diana McCaulay. Read an excerpt from her novel Huracan in the February 2011 issue of sx salon.
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Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture →
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Caesura, division between what is (death) and what we can do (language). Language of reaction. Of social action. The novel is an ethical space for this action to be imagined. Then, we perform. Then, we play. Then, we are changed. Then, we change. Then, we do.
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Carnival, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, February, 1975. Part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of Nick DeWolf.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
