Authors: David Shields
433 | Sonny Rollins, quoted in Ben Ratliff, “A Free Spirit Steeped in Legends,” New York Times |
438 | D’Agata |
439 | “no ideas but in things”: William Carlos Williams, Paterson |
440 | John Gardner, On Moral Fiction |
443 | David Wojahn, “The Inside” |
444 | First part: Wallace, interviewed by Larry McCaffrey, Review of Contemporary Fiction; second part: Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories |
445–446 | Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination |
448 | Borges, Ficciones |
450 | Williams, quoted in Robert Coles, Bruce Springsteen’s America |
451 | Gornick |
452 | Emerson |
453 | Emerson, except list of names |
454 | Heidegger |
458 | Nabokov, Lolita; in honor of the author’s Olympian hauteur, I corrected the grammar and punctuation. |
459 | Borges |
461 | Coetzee, Doubling the Point |
462 | Oscar Wilde |
467 | Smith |
468 | New York Film Festival catalogue copy |
469 | Emerson |
470 | Yeats |
472 | Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray |
474 | Gornick |
475 | James Shapiro, “The Critic’s Teeth,” New York Times; Shapiro and I were colleagues on the National Book Award nonfiction panel a few years ago: all five of us utterly disagreed about what nonfiction was. |
476 | Samuel Butler |
477 | Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God |
478 | Emerson |
479 | Raban, Powells.com interview |
480 | Montaigne |
481 | McElwee, Cineaste interview |
482 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Carson, Night by Night,” New York Times |
483 | Lorin Stein, “Loves of the Lambs,” New York Review of Books |
484 | Dan Georgakas, “The Art of Autobiography,” Cineaste |
485 | Dickinson |
488 | Lopate |
489 | Yeats |
491 | Marshall |
492 | My crush? Sort of; more Paul Bravmann’s. |
493 | Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time |
494 | George Bernard Shaw |
495 | Dana |
496 | Dyer, self-interview |
498 | Keats |
499 | Emerson |
501 | Montaigne |
502 | Ad copy for Curb Your Enthusiasm |
510 | My girlfriend and I shared the house with her brother; it was actually he who was wildly prolific all summer. Makes a better story the other way, though. |
524–525 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America |
526 | László Kardos, quoted in More Reflections on the Meaning of Life , ed. David Friend |
527 | Can’t quite remember where this is from, though it sounds like fourth-generation Sartre. Endless is the quest for truth. |
528 | Nietzsche |
529 | Woody Allen, Side Effects |
530 | Tennessee Williams, preface to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
531 | Zadie Smith, “The Limited Circle Is Pure,” New Republic; “information bureau …”: Adorno |
532 | Nietzsche |
533 | Nirvana, “All Apologies” |
534 | Schopenhauer |
535 | Nabokov, Pnin |
538 | Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own |
539 | Jean Cocteau |
540 | Robert Rauschenberg, quoted in Michael Kimmelman, “Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82,” New York Times |
541 | Steinberg, quoted in Vonnegut |
542 | Denis Johnson, in conversation |
543 | Saul Bellow, “What Kind of Day Did You Have?” |
544 | Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby |
545 | Barry Hannah, interviewed by James D. Lilley and Brion Oberkirch, Mississippi Review |
546 | Jennifer Jason Leigh, quoted in Sylviane Gold, “Ready to Play Anyone but Herself,” New York Times |
547 | Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own |
548 | Hass |
549 | Emerson |
550 | Adam Phillips, Equals |
551 | Bellow, quoted at http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/5286.htm |
552 | Beckett |
554 | Jim McBride, David Holzman’s Diary |
555 | Robert Capa |
556 | Kierkegaard |
557 | Gass |
558 | Dillard, in praise of Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts |
559 | Gordon Lish, quoted in Amy Hempel, “Captain Fiction,” Vanity Fair |
560 | D. H. Lawrence |
561 | Yeats |
562 | Emerson |
563 | Thomas Mann, Tonio Kruger |
564 | Lopate |
565 | Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer |
566 | Flaubert, The Writing Life |
567 | Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double |
569 | Bob Dylan, “Outlaw Blues” |
570 | The Wild Ones |
571 | King Lear |
572 | da Vinci |
573 | Prokofiev |
574 | Michelangelo |
575 | Nicholas Perricone, quoted in Alex Witchel, “Perriconology,” New York Times Magazine |
576 | Vikram Chandra, quoted in Motoko Rich, “Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry’s Rules,” New York Times |
577 | Goethe |
588 | O’Brien |
589 | Naipaul, quoted in James Wood, “Wounder and Wounded,” New Yorker |
590 | First sentence: Benjamin |
591 | Richard Serra, quoted in Kimmelman, “At the Met and the Modern with Richard Serra,” New York Times |
592 | Dyer |
596 | Marcus, “Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It,” Harper’s |
597 | Robbe-Grillet |
598 | Gornick |
599 | Hannah |
601 | Williams, Spring and All |
602 | Coetzee, Summertime |
603 | Williams |
604 | Gornick |
605 | Sebald |
606 | All but last sentence: Naipaul, quoted in Donadio, “The Irascible Prophet,” New York Times |
607–608 | Lopate |
609 | First five sentences except titles: D’Agata, Collision interview |
610 | Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage |
611 | Except for titles, E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist |
612 | D’Agata, The Next American Essay |
613 | Plutarch |
614 | Emerson |
615 | Gornick |
616 | Marcus, “The Genre Artist,” Believer |
617 | Berger, G |
618 | Carson, Decreation |