“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E.L. Doctorow
Categories
"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." ~Samuel Johnson
Books on the Block
Enduring Love (McEwan); Nausée (Sartre); La Chute (Camus); Soul of Iran (Molavi); Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo), Free Fall (Golding); Kiss Me, Judas (Baer); Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky).
“A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.” ~ Franz Kafka
Videos on the Block
Super Size Me
Bowling for Columbine
Sicko
Escape to Canada
"Your writing must prove to me that it desires me." ~ Roland Barthes
Upcoming Travels
Summer 10: Montreal
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." ~Anaïs Nin
Top Cities To Visit
Sana'a
Valletta
Montreal
Hong Kong
Singapore
Tunis
Tbilisi
Yerewan
Buenos Aires
Baku
Dublin
Cardiff
Edinburgh
Toulouse
Lisbon
Athens
Istanbul
Kathmandu
Isfahan
Shiraz
Herat
Kabul
Seoul
“Deliver me from Swedish furniture.
Deliver me from clever art...
...May I never be complete.
May I never be content.
May I never be perfect.”
~Chuck Palahniuk