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David is Currently Reading

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Cowboy Mouth

by Sam Shepard

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"[The play starts in the dark.]

Scene: … CAVALE has kidnapped SLIM off the streets with an old .45. (She wants to make him into a rock-and-roll star, but they fall in love. We find them after one too many mornings. They’re both mean as snakes. SLIM is charging around screaming words; CAVALE is rummaging through junk, yelling with a cracked throat. The lights come up on them in this state.)" — Nov 23, 2014 08:26AM

Oct 13, 2014 08:31AM

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Being Right or Making Money

by Ned Davis

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"The doctor had three types of brains in inventory: lawyer brains for $5 an ounce, doctor brains at $10 an ounce, and stock‐market guru brains for $250 per ounce. The Texan asked, “Why in the world are the stock‐market guru brains so much more expensive or valuable than those of doctors or lawyers?” And the doctor replied, “Do you have any idea how many gurus it takes to get an ounce of brain?”" — Dec 07, 2014 07:31PM

Nov 06, 2020 06:13PM

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Can't and Won't

by Lydia Davis

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"Contingency (vs. Necessity)

He could be our dog.
But he is not our dog.
So he barks at us" — Mar 18, 2015 02:01PM

Mar 17, 2015 07:16PM

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“YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE.”
― Amy King

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“For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.”
― Ken Follett

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“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwords comes out shooting the wounded.”
― Tyne Daly

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“War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”
― Ambrose Bierce

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“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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2015: The Year of Reading Women — 675 members — last activity Apr 01, 2020 04:01AM
Join us for a year of member-run group reads to make 2015 the year of reading women! Rules Members are free to create author threads by surname if th ...more

History: Actual, Fictional and Legendary — 1206 members — last activity Feb 07, 2026 09:18AM
This group is for anyone whose interest in History goes beyond textbooks. While I enjoy reading books that cover actual events and actual people, I al ...more

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A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more

Odysseus to Ulysses — 63 members — last activity Jun 22, 2024 05:04PM
This group will be reading first Homer's The Odyssey, for which we plan to take around two months, and then James Joyce's Ulysses, which may take abou ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22560 members — last activity Feb 16, 2026 08:36PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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