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Memorable Snatchs...from my day
Oct. 22nd, 2006 04:16 pmOdd day. Cloudy. Cool. With breaks of sunlight. Breaks of drizzle. Yellow leaves. Subdued colors. My own clothes - the turqoise purple jacket - a shout of color against the browns. I think this now, looking out at a sun that jumps in and out of gray clouds like a child playing hide and go seek, after a day looking at art, and a morning reading snatchs of writing from word artists.
I have odd obsessions, I know this, and they tend to be culturally oriented. My current one is magazines, and not just any magazines, but literary, science, political, film, art and culture magazines. Fashion mags such as Vogue, Cosmopolitian, and Marie Claire don't interest me - they are ad heavy with more pictures than words. At any rate, I've been compulsively picking up magazines lately the way some people might compulsively buy chocolat bars. They travel well on subways and make great reading during commericial breaks - with one little problem, occassionally the article is more intriguing than the tv show I'm watching. Cultural multi-tasking - yes, I've discovered a way to do it.
At any rate here's a few snatchs from my morning reading my current fav literary mag, TinHouse:
( On Memory - from a Stephen King short story I finished this morning. Perhaps the best I've read from King since The Body. )
( Writing from an interview with Roddy Doyle, a succesfful Irish writer. About the duty of a writer. And the process of writing. )
( On why writing description is important. From the same interview )
( On religion, also the same interview. )
( Stanzas selected from a poem entitled Self Search. About our relationships with ourselves. Speaks to what I've been writing lately in lj and reading lately. )
( On communication - paraphrased from a foggy memory of a writeup next to collage seen at an artist's studio on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It made me laugh. )
( On Books ...from Proteus Gowanus, a museum featuring installations associated with a monthly theme, this months theme is libraries. )
Those are the snatchs wandering about in my brain at the moment, requiring additional pondering.
I have odd obsessions, I know this, and they tend to be culturally oriented. My current one is magazines, and not just any magazines, but literary, science, political, film, art and culture magazines. Fashion mags such as Vogue, Cosmopolitian, and Marie Claire don't interest me - they are ad heavy with more pictures than words. At any rate, I've been compulsively picking up magazines lately the way some people might compulsively buy chocolat bars. They travel well on subways and make great reading during commericial breaks - with one little problem, occassionally the article is more intriguing than the tv show I'm watching. Cultural multi-tasking - yes, I've discovered a way to do it.
At any rate here's a few snatchs from my morning reading my current fav literary mag, TinHouse:
( On Memory - from a Stephen King short story I finished this morning. Perhaps the best I've read from King since The Body. )
( Writing from an interview with Roddy Doyle, a succesfful Irish writer. About the duty of a writer. And the process of writing. )
( On why writing description is important. From the same interview )
( On religion, also the same interview. )
( Stanzas selected from a poem entitled Self Search. About our relationships with ourselves. Speaks to what I've been writing lately in lj and reading lately. )
( On communication - paraphrased from a foggy memory of a writeup next to collage seen at an artist's studio on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. It made me laugh. )
( On Books ...from Proteus Gowanus, a museum featuring installations associated with a monthly theme, this months theme is libraries. )
Those are the snatchs wandering about in my brain at the moment, requiring additional pondering.
