“Men were assholes, women were victims; men were active, women passive. Given the choice, I would have preferred to be an active asshole. Instead, I kept writing.” — At Elle, Kate Christensen talks about the phrase “dick for a day,” writing from the male point of view and getting inside the male head. (via Maud)
This is everything you could possibly want to know about Ayn Rand and objectivism.
John Waters wants to tell you how to be a role model. (Okay, fine. Not a book blog. But JOHN WATERS IS TELLING YOU HOW TO BE A ROLE MODEL!)
Apparently, robots get confused by human language, so they’re inventing their own. (via Book Bench)
“I wanted stories that never gave themselves over wholly to critical analysis, ones that even after the best critics had julietted the prose into theoretical piles, something intangible and illusory still remained just out of touch.” — BookFox on what makes literature literature.
