June 2006
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Jack Kerouac's Belief & Technique For Modern...
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
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John Updike's 6 Rules for Book-Reviewing
“My rules, shaped intaglio-fashion by youthful traumas at the receiving end of critical opinion, were and are:
Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.
Give him enough direct quotation—at least one extended passage—of the book’s prose so the review’s reader can form his own impression, can get his own...
