Software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible.
For the Owl there was something Infinitely Preferable About the Night. The Owl had difficulty explaining this to other birds.
Can. I didn’t think it was true, but it was kind and I clung to it and kept taking the class, and
You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can’t cross.
You need a certain head on your shoulders to edit a novel, and it’s not the head of a writer in the thick of it, nor the head of a professional editor who’s read it in twelve different versions. It’s...
You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.
Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does mean,' said Samad tersely, 'that it is a good idea.
When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are bein...
When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue. . . . the cosmic Zora emerges. . . . How can anybody deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me!
When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about opera, have strong opin...
Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.
We were the first generation to have, in our own homes, the means to re- and forward-wind reality: even very small children could press their fingers against those clunky buttons and see what-has-been...
Uno dei più grandi sogni di autenticità dell’avanguardia è questa possibilità di diventare criminali, di condividere la sorte di Genet e John Fante, dei freak, dei perduti, degli emarginati. (Con la n...
Two people creating the time of their own lives, protected somehow by love, not ignorant of history but not formed by it, either.
Two people creating the time of their own lives, protected somehow by love, not ignorant of history but not deformed by it, either.
Travel had seemed the key to the kingdom, back then. One dreamed of a life that would enable travel. Howard looked through his window at a lamp-post buried to its waist in show supporting two chained-...
They were smooth and bright, and their timing was wonderful, and they were young and hilarious. It was really something to see, they thought, and this was why they spoke loudly and gestured, inviting...
They were married though they needn’t have married, and though both had sworn they never would be. It is hard to explain—in that game of musical chairs—why they should have stopped, finally, at each o...
They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting. At this moment, all ov...
These forms of criticism that make black women the privileged readers of a black woman writer go against Hurston’s own grain. She saw things otherwise: When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter...