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    • by Bud Parr on 09/20/07 (1 comments)
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“She is the author of several books containing many words. Some people like to watch snuff movies, some people like to read Coulter.”

- Roger Miller

“On the other hand, I have to say that, as a spectator, I’m much more fascinated by the Republicans. Watching those shifty, devious, unscrupulous creatures clawing at each other in spasms of demagoguery and pander is like beholding the whole vile, fear-driven history of humanity.”

- C.K. Williams on the ’08 presidential race at The New Republic

“It’s the sort of intellect-covered-in-marketing-goo fun that warrants some serious post-festival decompression. Between rushing to take advantage of the shwag stations (read: like shopping in Bloomingdales…for free) to scheduling the evening of back-to-back Hollywood parties, it’s a wonder anyone actually has time to watch the films. It’s a version of LA slightly humbled by geography and weather – the same way the films are a version of their Hollywood counterparts, slightly humbled by budget and niche.”

- Maya Baratz writing on the Sundance Film Festival on the Flickr blog

“Capote rented a basement on Willow Street, where he wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, for $90 a month. Today, that same home (not just the basement, to be fair) is renting for $40,000 a month. Times, as they say, have changed. So while there’s a slower pace to Brooklyn, which for me is helpful in getting the work done, I wouldn’t say that modern Brooklyn is particularly helpful for writing.”

- Peter Melman interviewed at The Written Nerd

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I think the main challenge – and this cuts to one of main goals of the Brooklyn Book Festival – is for people to recognize and embrace Brooklyn as the literary capital of New York City.

- Johnny Temple interviewed at The Written Nerd

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Good video piece with Eugene Drucker of the Emerson String Quartet on Bach’s "Ciaccona" (scroll down) as it threads his story of a violinist made to perform in a Nazi concentration camp in his novel The Savior.



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