20 Under 40.

"Twenty young writers who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction."

Via The New Yorker. Ler aqui o artigo completo.

The Razor's Edge.

O Fio da Navalha foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1944. De facto, as crises são cíclicas, e as questões essenciais sobre a alma e o corpo continuam a ser as mesmas.

Foto: Screenshot de The Razor's Edge, de Edmund Goulding, com Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, e John Payne.

Mad People.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad tobe saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn...".

Jack Kerouac.

Over There.

"The sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thoma's Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

John Green, In Looking for Alaska.

The Literary Cocktail Party.

Literary Cocktail Party at George Plimpton's Apartment, New York City, 1963.

Photo: Cornell Capa.