#jane smiley

[cinematic-literature]

Euphoria S03E07 (Rain or Shine)

Book title: Some Luck (2014) by Jane Smiley

[date-prisa-estamos-leyendo]

Tenía los ojos rojos, pero lo que tenía, sobre todo, era la expresión atormentada de alguien luchando por superar los minutos siguientes.

Heredarás la tierra, Jane Smiley.

[litsnaps]

[msmarymillspaulos]

#resist

[bluewillowmoon]

“I always think that things have to happen the way they do happen, that there are so many inner and outer forces joining at every event that it becomes a kind of fate. I learned from studying Buddhism that there’s beauty, and certainly a lot of peace, in accepting that.”

— Jane Smiley, from A Thousand Acres (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)

[roseredfingers]

“So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn’t forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can’t stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That’s my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.”

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

[nobeerreviews]

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

-- Jane Smiley

[kammartinez]

To Fix the University, Return to Moo U

Every time Sean Carswell teaches Jane Smiley’s “Moo” in his research writing class at California State University, a catastrophe at the fict