“Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo” (trans. “I will bugger you and stuff your gobs”) Catullus, still shocking 2,000 years on
& ““Syntax condensed, sound is solid.” Allen Ginsberg‘s Mind Writing Slogans (includes William Blake, Walt Whitman, Kerouac, Shakespeare, Bob Dylan / via @ElectricLit)
& Rimbaud‘s Illuminations at Dennis Cooper’s blog
& The Velvet Underground at New York Public Library
& Robert Crumb & Art Spiegelman talk comics
& “In 1973, when my first novel was accepted for publication, I was in similar straits: young, endlessly drunk, trying to support a wife and two children, writing at night, hoping for a break. The break came, but until reading Sklenicka’s book, I thought it was the $2,500 advance Doubleday paid for Carrie. Now I realize it may have been not winding up with Gordon Lish as my editor.” Stephen King on Raymond Carver (via The Rumpus)
& “I’m an old writer by now. I’ve been at this for 25 years and in a way I could say I do everything differently. I was blundering around in the dark at the start. I was 19, 20 years old and I wrote three novels on an electric typewriter, which isn’t very common anymore. I think that I was trying to learn how to tell a story and so in a way the storytelling is the most prominent part of my early work. I didn’t have time to be as devoted to language or deeper structure as I would have liked to be and I certainly eventually have become.” Jonathan Lethem in L Mag (via Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
[Image: jm3]
