Robert Fay | Writer

Bookstack by Camera Freak on Flickr.

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:40:55 -0400

Bookstack by Camera Freak on Flickr.

Van Gogh - Roses, detail

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:58:44 -0400

Van Gogh - Roses, detail

millionsmillions: The hundredth anniversary of Swann’s Way is...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:11:57 -0400

millionsmillions:

The hundredth anniversary of Swann’s Way is this year, and to celebrate, the New York Times posted a series of tributes to the work of Marcel Proust.

theparisreview: More than two thousand papers and other...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:28:04 -0400

theparisreview:

More than two thousand papers and other materials from Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, Finca Vigia, are being transferred to the John F. Kennedy Library. These will include passports showing Hemingway’s travels and letters commenting on such works as “The Old Man and the Sea.”

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When I Realize I Must Return To Work After A Truly Wonderful Lunch Break

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:19:50 -0400

lifeinreligiouspublishing:

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Fri, 03 May 2013 17:08:46 -0400

millionsmillions: “It’s interesting that so few narratives...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:15:47 -0400

millionsmillions:

“It’s interesting that so few narratives about Harvard have ever been told from the non-elite, unassimilated experience. Such a void is, finally and wonderfully, filled by Andre Aciman’s brilliant new novel…Café Algiers becomes, in Kalaj’s words, Chez Nous, a respite from the university just a few streets away.”

Jessica Freeman-Slade reviews Andre Aciman’s Harvard Square, set partially at the Square’s real-life Cafe Algiers.

"One is always at home in one’s past…"

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:15:16 -0400

“One is always at home in one’s past…”

- Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via litverve)
How odd to come across this quote. I’m reading the book right now—it’s been on my shelf for years.

Longreads: Longreads Guest Pick: Meaghan O'Connell on Ted Thompson and the Making of a Novel

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:13:29 -0400

Longreads: Longreads Guest Pick: Meaghan O'Connell on Ted Thompson and the Making of a Novel:

longreads:

Meaghan O’Connell is the editor-in-chief of meaghano.com:

“I regard novel-writing with a heady combination of awe and dread, so when debut novelist Ted Thompson wrote about his book’s eight (eight!) year journey to completion last week, I opened it in a tab and walked away from my…

What I actually want to do this weekend

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:00:10 -0400

lifeinpublishing:

When an author acts like they write in a bubble and are completely 100% original and in no way have been influenced by anything at all

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:29:59 -0400

lifeinpublishing:

emiofthecity: bookshelfporn: <3

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:37:58 -0400

emiofthecity:

bookshelfporn:

<3

theparisreview: David Foster Wallace on Ambition—an animated...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:15:40 -0400

theparisreview:

David Foster Wallace on Ambition—an animated short by Blank on Blank.

millionsmillions: Why is it “The Waste Land” and not “The...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:14:07 -0400

millionsmillions:

Why is it “The Waste Land” and not “The Wasteland”?

[Photo: Ezra Pound’s edits of T. S. Eliot’s original.]

"How to account for any possible perceived dearth of contemporary Catholic literature and art? I have..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:44:48 -0400

“How to account for any possible perceived dearth of contemporary Catholic literature and art? I have learned the problem is one of definition. In the same way that paradox is endemic to Catholic doctrine, Catholic imaginative literature remains a conundrum to many critics, both Catholic and secular.”

- Nick Ripatrazone, ”Counter and Strange: Contemporary Catholic Literature” (via millionsmillions)
I was quite surprised to read that the author of this piece was writing in part to respond to my 2011 essay titled “Where have all the Catholic Writers Gone?”

lucreciasline: Prayers for the victims of the Boston Bombings...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:21:56 -0400

lucreciasline:

Prayers for the victims of the Boston Bombings and for all Bostonians.

Mahler Symphony #9, 4th movement, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti (1 of 2) and 2 of 2

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theparisreview: T. S. Eliot meets Igor Stravinsky. (via)

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:22:23 -0400

theparisreview:

T. S. Eliot meets Igor Stravinsky. (via)

unypl: “Notes from the Underground,” by Fyodor...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:45:58 -0400

unypl:

“Notes from the Underground,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Borrow I Read

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Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:06:55 -0400

simena: Oskar Bergman

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:28:47 -0400

simena:

Oskar Bergman