Life Of A Movellas Intern

becauseofthiswoman: Name: bell hooksDates: 1952-presentWhy she...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:00:01 -0400

Name: bell hooks
Dates: 1952-present

Why she rocks: She writes books on the interconnectivity of gender, race, class and how they have the ability to perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and countless scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentaries, and speaks globally.

Quote: I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

Because of this woman… there is a figurehead talking about how to end systems of oppression in our world.

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Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:08:33 -0400

Tomorrow I’m heading down to the Movellas offices for the first time and i am very excited, to be working in the busy streets of London. As you can see we were mentioned in article by Reuter’s which i was interviewed for. Will update more tomorrow off to do some writing ^^ x

Oh Look It's Me.

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:04:47 -0400

Oh Look It's Me.

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:58:51 -0400

““Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.””

- Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via 4mbivalent)

nevver: What Katie Does

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:57:21 -0400

nevver:

What Katie Does

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theatlantic: With This Machine, You Can Print Your Own Books at...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:34:01 -0400

theatlantic:

With This Machine, You Can Print Your Own Books at the Local Bookstore

I’ve been intrigued by the Espresso Book Machine since I first saw it in an oversized beta version in 2007 on display at the New York Public Library’s Science Industry and Business branch and was impressed with the notion that so many printed works could be brought to life instantly, complete with cover, spine, and a choice of interiors. But the greatest allure of the device, as explained in interviews with a handful of the booksellers who have taken the plunge and installed the machine, is that it enables self-publishing by authors who have written fiction and specialized nonfiction (recipes and family genealogy, for example) and are satisfied with a small number of copies, at least initially.

Read more. [Image: Politics and Prose/Flickr]

Movellas Riot Competion

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:24:12 -0500

Movellas Riot Competion

"a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where your still dreaming but..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:32:34 -0500

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a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where your still dreaming but it`s slowly slipping? i wish we could feel like that more often. i also wish i could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere i like. i wish that people didn`t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. and i wish i could get lost in the stars.

listen, there`s a hell of a good universe next door, let`s go.

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- e.e.cummings (via wingsoffabutterfly)

"love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:32:24 -0500

“love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.”

- charles bukowski (via pales)

"I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:32:12 -0500

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”

- Roland Barthes (via loveyourchaos)

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"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."

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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

- Walt Whitman (via empty-the-moon)

visual-poetry: l(a) by e.e. cummings some interesting...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:31:25 -0500

visual-poetry:

l(a) by e.e. cummings

some interesting analyses here, here and here.

(via printed-ink)

thelifeguardlibrarian: Happy (belated) birthday Elizabeth...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:31:11 -0500

thelifeguardlibrarian:

Happy (belated) birthday Elizabeth Barrett Browning you sassy smitten sonnet writing Victorian lady. Le sigh.

The Browning love letters are online now (click through!), in a fantatic project by Baylor University Libraries. Above is a snippet of Elizabeth’s response to Robert’s first letter:

I thank you, dear Mr Browning, from the bottom of my heart. You meant to give me pleasure by your letter-and even if the object had not been answered, I ought still to thank you. But it is thoroughly answered. Such a letter from such a hand!

arnours: “Sweetheart, Please, please don’t be so depressed —...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:30:47 -0500

arnours:

“Sweetheart,

Please, please don’t be so depressed — We’ll be married soon, and then these lonesome nights will be over forever — and until we are, I am loving, loving every tiny minute of the day and night — Maybe you won’t understand this, but sometimes when I miss you most, it’s hardest to write — and you always know when I make myself — Just the ache of it all — and I can’t tell you. If we were together, you’d feel how strong it is — you’re so sweet when you’re melancholy. I love your sad tenderness — when I’ve hurt you — That’s one of the reasons I could never be sorry for our quarrels — and they bothered you so — Those dear, dear little fusses, when I always tried so hard to make you kiss and forget —

Scott — there’s nothing in all the world I want but you — and your precious love — All the material things are nothing. I’d just hate to live a sordid, colorless existence — because you’d soon love me less — and less — and I’d do anything — anything — to keep your heart for my own — I don’t want to live — I want to love first, and live incidentally — Why don’t you feel that I’m waiting — I’ll come to you, Lover, when you’re ready — Don’t don’t ever think of the things you can’t give me — You’ve trusted me with the dearest heart of all — and it’s so damn much more than anybody else in all the world has ever had —

How can you think deliberately of life without me — If you should die — O Darling — darling Scott — It’d be like going blind. I know I would, too, — I’d have no purpose in life — just a pretty — decoration. Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered — and I was delivered to you — to be worn — I want you to wear me, like a watch — charm or a button hole boquet — to the world. And then, when we’re alone, I want to help — to know that you can’t do anything without me.”

Excerpt of a letter from Zelda To Scott Fitzgerald, in Spring of 1919.

"I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:30:34 -0500

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

- Charles Bukowski (via randygraves)