#lorin stein

[days-of-reading]

Édouard Levé, Autoportrait (2005), trans. by Lorin Stein

[infiniterichesinalittleroom]

I don't write any more poems. I make poems that I recite to myself, which I taste, which I play with. I feel no need to communicate them to anyone, even to people I like a lot. I don't write them down. It's so good to daydream, to stammer around something which remains a secret for oneself. It's a sin of gluttony.

Blaise Cendrars • Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

When it’s done right, fiction provides the authority to speak about deep things; at the same time, it provides a shield, a mask. The mask lets you say things, talk about things, that you couldn’t ordinarily talk about.

Lorin Stein

[alanreedwrite]

I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it's always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.

Édouard Levé, Autoportrait (translated by Lorin Stein)

[alanreedwrite]

To describe my life precisely would take longer than to live it.

Édouard Levé, Autoportrait (translated by Lorin Stein)

[tweensensation]

SADIE AND L-MONEY

[henryhitchings]

STEIN Something about [All That Man Is] reminds me of David Foster Wallace’s novels. It asserts a shared reality—even when the characters seem wrapped up in themselves—and also, beyond that shared reality, a sort of possible transcendence that keeps twinkling at the edge of everyd...

Further to yesterday’s post, here is the text of a conversation between David Szalay and Lorin Stein.   

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Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Zadie Smith

Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith treats guests to a reading of her short story Two Men Arrive In  A Village   Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit in the same room with one of your favorite authors and just listen to them talk for an hour about pretty much anything?  Well my chance came to glorious fruition when I attended “Eat, Drink & Be Literary” at Brooklyn Academy of Music (which I’ll be calling…

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