June 09, 2014
When they’re not writing your favorite books, they’re making your favorite music … or at least trying to.
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When they’re not writing your favorite books, they’re making your favorite music … or at least trying to.
Read MoreJonathan Lethem, Jamaica Kincaid and F. Scott Fitzgerald all prove that there’s more than one road to success.
Read MoreBrewing up beer and author pairings, because great writers deserve great drinks.
Read MoreA weekly series that explores a featured theme by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday for the answers.
“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
-Andy Warhol
“Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We’re all nerds, on one subject or another.”
-Jonathan Lethem
“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.”
-Wilder Penfield
“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”
-Jose Saramago
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis
Images: New York Magazine, Slate, BBC.com, BBC News, CBS News
When Notorious B.I.G. posed one of the most famous rhetorical questions in hip-hop history—"What's Beef?"—I wonder if he had any idea that the answer would one day be "syntax and intellectual property." But syntax and intellectual property were certainly at the heart of Ludacris's beefy new diss record aimed at younger rappers Drake and Big Sean.
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