December 2010
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Dec 20th
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“No wonder we can’t break free No matter how long, how wide, how Deep we...”
–  from “Whitewash,” by Rodrigo dela Peña, Jr.
Dec 20th
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The 10th Annual Year in Ideas →
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Jerry Saltz’s Open Letter to the Republicans of...
Dear Messrs. Kantor and Boehner: Given your censoring of David Wojnarowicz’s video of ants crawling on a plastic crucifix with a wooden human figure meant to represent Jesus Christ, a literary character penned by numerous authors over several hundred years and now worshiped as God, and your threatening the Smithsonian’s funding if it did not comply with your wishes, I would like you to know about...
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate...”
–  Truman Capote
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first...”
– George Orwell
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Solidarity in literature without borders →
“Is not that what writing, deep down, seeks, that it should matter? The refinement of the spirit that results from all good, true writing yearns for the peace that thrives in fairness and dignity, which even the haiku presumes in its juxtaposition of images from the natural world.” - Simeon Dumdum Jr.
Dec 12th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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“The danger, as a rule, of having nothing else to do is that one might write too...”
–  T.S. Eliot, on the usefulness of exercising other activities other than writing.
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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“Still, we do not dispute what we See of ourselves: the captured Smile is the...”
–  excerpt from “Unseen Photographs,” by Dinah Romah Sianturi
Dec 6th
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2010 Philippines Free Press Literary Awards...
It was not surprising at all. This year’s Philippines Free Press Literary Awards name Noelle Leslie de Jesus and Mo Francisco as first prize winner for poetry (“Discourse”) and second prize winner for short fiction (“Jimmie”), respectively. (Les) As for the other winners, Ma’am Marjorie Evasco won second prize for the poem “It Is Time To Come Home,” while nobody got the third slot. For fiction,...
Dec 6th
Dec 6th
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“At some point, you know, you have to try to get one with God and then take a...”
–  Robert Penn Warren
Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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The 10 Best Books of 2010 →
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
November 2010
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PDI reporter fears for life over Tim Yap tweet  →
Casual tweeting is casual tweeting. And sometimes dangerous.
Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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