the movie is unstoppable

A quote from a(nother) really rather excellent interview on 3ammagazine.com, this time with Gary Lutz, who I now want to read and find out all about.

A general strong impulse to read, sometimes. I stole a book from a friend, the other day, in a bit of a muddle of meaning to ask and the hour kind of getting too late and thinking I'd just put the book back on his shelf next time I was there, and also thinking of course I'd tell him. When I did tell him, I realised I'd really just stolen his book.

Time in the movies in different to time in the books, Lutz says. Which Joe Dunthorne also talks about, in a different way, in the interview I did with him a little while back for the Paris Review blog, which I've neglected to post here so far.

Odd

“Odd, that I, who say ‘no’ so much, cannot bear it from others. Odd, that I, who run from so many, cannot brook that one turn from me.”

From the Paris Review's interview with Emily Fragos, quoting the recently released volume of Emily Dickinson's letters, of which Fragos was editor.

Review of The Spot by David Means

Aqui

And aqui a sort of interview with David Means at the Paris Review, promisingly entitled 'Why David Means is Not a Novelist' - in fact it feels a bit half-baked to me, bit of a missed opportunity: why not get the author to talk a bit more specifically about the differences between novel and short story, and about his own processes in relation to those differences? Feels a bit like he was sent an email, can you talk a bit about x, and it might have been worth folowing up hs reply asking further question. Still worth a look though.

Nearly always?

Joyce Carol Oates

1978

“I have beliefs, of course, like everyone — but I don't always believe in them.”

You can choose to take upon yourself the bad karma of a violent act in order to save that person from a much worse sin.

This is a link to William Dalrymple's account of his encounter with a warrior monk.

Dalrymple's new book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, will be published by Knopf in June.