February 2012
22 posts
46 Things For David Foster Wallace's Birthday →
gn0m0n:
Today would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday, and if you’d like to mark it, here are some things that might interest you to read (or watch) and revisit.
“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald — Tender is the Night (via abookshelf)
“Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via daisyslight)
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bookmania)
“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via honeyforthehomeless)
“Already with thee! tender is the night…
…But here there is no light,
Save what...”
– (via jemappellealana)
NPR: 3 Biting Books For Those Bitter On... →
A couple of recommendations for the bitter, lonely Bookworm.
Maybe we should consider changing our name to The Lonelyhearts? The Nathanael West is highly suggested, but maybe Tender is the Night could also work …
“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party. (via isuckinstars)
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century →
French newspaper Le Monde lists its 100 Best Books of the Century. Obviously, the list is very Franco-centric, but nonetheless it’s interesting to see what they’ve picked outside of France.
“It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via charlie-dontsurf)
“So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via catelyntully)
"Tender is the Night" (1933) Free E-Book →
The entirety of Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night” is available for free courtesy of Project Gutenburg. Now, there’s no reason for you not to come to our meeting in March! Tell your friends!
Music to Accompany "The Marriage Plot" →
Our friend Amy created a playlist inspired by Eugenides’ “The Marriage Plot”. Click on the above link for a free download. Tracklist below. Enjoy!
1973 My Old School Steely Dan 1983 Everyday I Write The Book Elvis Costello 1999 The Book Of Love The Magnetic Fields 1979 The Ledge Fleetwood Mac 1999 We’re Just Friends Wilco 1979...
"The Marriage Plot" Reading Group Guide
Courtesy of Barnes and Noble, here are some things to consider before attending the meeting THIS Sunday, 6 PM at Lamplighter Roasting Company:
Does modern love have any need for romance, much less marriage? For Madeleine Hanna, an English major writing a senior thesis with the marriage plot as the centerpiece, the question looms large. In Madeleine’s favorite novels, marriage is the plot....
“The confident way Madeleine drove (she often insisted that athletes made better...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via darafang)
January 2012
26 posts
100 best first lines from novels →
discoverynews:
1. Call me Ishmael. - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. A screaming comes across the sky. - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
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“He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure...”
– The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides (via daydreamdelusion)
“He thought about the people he knew, with their excellent young bodies, their...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via soniasaraiya)
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via bookmania)
“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
– Marcel Proust (via ahnuhlycious)
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to...”
– Tennessee Williams (via bardsandsages)
“Things To Worry About
F.Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old...”
“In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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“People would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard love talked about.”
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld (via The Marriage Plot)
“let it go”
let it go-the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise-let it go it was sworn to go let them go-the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers-you must let them go they were born to go let all go-the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things-let all go dear so comes love. -e.e. cummings
WatchRemedios (the club’s mascot) enjoying her copy of The Marriage Plot!
A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst →
NPR’s Fresh Air interview with author of “The Marriage Plot” Jeffrey Eugenides.
“College wasn’t like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot
“My goal in life is to become an adjective”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via funkyforyou)
“The café had just opened. The guy behind the counter, who was wearing Elvis...”
– The Marriage Plot, Jeffery Eugenides (via invertedreality)
“Books aren’t about ‘real life.’ Books are about other books.”
– Thurston Meems, The Marriage Plot (pg. 28)
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for...”
– Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being (translated by Michael Henry Heim)
“On the whole, Pyotr Petrovich belonged to that category of men who, when...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Crime and Punishment (via theneweryork)
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding.” (via musingsinfemininity)
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write ‘The... →
Jeffrey Eugenides talks about the inception of “The Marriage Plot”.
December 2011
10 posts
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via weelittleactress)