I should have like to say: “Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet that was scarcely any bigger than himself, and who had need of a sheep...” 我本想这样开头:“从前有一个小王子,他住在一个和他身体差不多大的星球上,他想要一只羊···” To those who und...
These four shelves are but some of a total of nine in this unit, being seven feet tall. You’ll see I read not only several authors but many works of each of them. There’s Ellen Gilchrist, there’s Nick Hornby, there’s Sedaris, and, inevitably, there’s Philip Roth, who wrote f...
“My first ever interview was with you. Jamal,” singer Rita Ora wrote on Instagram. “Our endless talks on music and the belief you had in me and so many of us before we even believed in ourselves. I’m devastated.” Actor Adam Deacon said he was “heartbroken.” “Jamal...
He added that with the global coronavirus pandemic, it had changed. “My panic disorder has morphed and twisted and brought along some darkness that seems to appear out of absolutely nowhere,” he wrote. “It can be terrifying.” “‘This Is the Song’ was written in the middle of a ...
Allow me to blow your mind with this fact: pop stars don't always write their own music. I mean, not everyone can be Taylor Swift, okay? Okay, obviously not very shocking. What might surprise you? That some celebrities are actually the scribes behind some of the biggest hits on the ra...
(‘Substitoot’ had become a sublime buzzword since Smokey had used it in his masterpiece ‘Tracks of My Tears’.) I set up my two tape machines, now stereo, in my new flat, and wrote. I heard in my own voice the tumult of a young man playing a role, uneasily, repackaging black...
Elisabeth Kubler Ross so famously wrote about the Five Stages of Grief, and the final stage being one of acceptance. What if, throughout this entire journey, as you wonder what to say to someone who is dying, as you wonder how to process your own journey of grief, you are open to acc...
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Drizzy revealedto fans on Aug. 16, 2021, in a comment on a fan account that he had contracted the virus. “I had Covid that s— grew in weird I had to start again,” he wrote in response to a photo of the heart shaved into his hair growing in. “It’s coming back don’t di...
Two days after he was sentenced to life in prison in 1972, Phillips wrote a poem. It may have been the first poem he ever wrote. He was 26 years old, and had left high school in tenth grade, and now, with plenty of time to wonder, he took a pencil and set his wondering down ...