April 2013
1 post
“The Villa Straylight is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. Each space...”
– William Gibson, Neuromancer (text snerped from Wikipedia)
January 2013
2 posts
Started reading The Mission Song: A Novel by John... →
Started reading The Library at Night by Alberto... →
November 2012
33 posts
“Some of them seem to be homeless because they lack the initiative and cunning to...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Walter Benjamin wrote again and again of Paris as a labyrinth, a forest, a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“On the coast of northernmost California, there is a National Historic Landmark...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“I remember that twenty years ago, when the huge army of the homeless was first...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“But it is not they who have become savages in the wild city. We have. They are...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“The homeless live in the city as though it were a wilderness: not a wilderness...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“American cities have become a wilderness of another sort. The homeless live in...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Before gas lighting, European cities had been as dark as a forest at...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“the feral city”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Nineteenth-century Paris was often compared to a wilderness by its poets and...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“The forester and poet Gary Snyder likes to say that the most radical thing you...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“There is the protracted timeline of change: a preliminary state in which almost...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“The book begins with a kind of trumpet cry: To understand how momentous was this...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Of all the networks he deals with, this one made up of ideas and ethical...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Clarkson and his colleagues built a network consciously and conscientiously,...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Some activists are born into their disposition and vocation, but many of the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“The publisher Clarkson found was a Quaker who introduced him to the few others,...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“tract. The publisher Clarkson found was a Quaker who introduced him to the few...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Slavery was outside the moral universe”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“One Church of England clergyman who took up the case was Dr. Peter Peckard, who...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“One kind of linkage is coincidence. Another is friendship and the affinities of...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“That’s the rule of thumb: when we talk, it’s a network; when they talk, it’s a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Lombardi’s work is often regarded as evidence of sinister conspiracies by people...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“After September 11, 2001, the FBI visited the Whitney Museum to examine...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“His most famous work was about the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“intricate maps, like medieval cosmology or Kabbalah diagrams, whose huge arcs...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
“Mark Lombardi’s art”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
Started reading Storming the Gates of Paradise:... →
“Once he was sure not to be seen, Brentford crossed the embankment, took...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
“While they had been in Icy Bay, their party had suddenly seen rising from the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
“even as you came closer to it, as he was doing now, reaching the Lotus Eaters...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
“a white-haired but healthy man, with a sympathetic surface and tolerably murky...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
October 2012
6 posts
“This is Mat’s secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
“Tiny Amish presses with no taste for digital record-keeping.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
“enjoys Wes Anderson movies”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
“This was a stripper standing athwart history, yelling, Stop!”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
“Tell me,” Penumbra said, “about a book you love.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel by Robin Sloan
Started reading Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore:... →
September 2012
1 post
Started reading Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe... →
July 2012
17 posts
“The thought of doing it made the blood shake in my throat.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana French
“The final step into feral is murder.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana French
Started reading Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana... →
Finished reading The Enterprise of Death by Jesse... →
A picaresque about necromancy, roughly. Manages to be simultaneously empathetic, morally complex, raucously funny, and entangled in the abject in ways most people will probably find off-putting. I really liked it.
“Fuck had no sake here.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
“We ought to take a fresh look at tradition, considered not as the inert...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
“But we also live in an electric or post-literate time”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan 