I love this comment by Cormac McCarthy in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:
I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
About Peter Darbyshire
Echoes
Words to live by
November 19, 2009 — peteryou light up my life
November 17, 2009 — peter
Currently intrigued by: Social PayPal?
November 17, 2009 — peterHmm, this is an interesting idea. Somebody get on this.
Currently reading: Heaven is Small
November 16, 2009 — peter
This is just like when I worked as a proofreader for Harlequin! (My favourite Harlequin line: “His body saluted her.”)
Currently reading: Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter
November 3, 2009 — peter
Nothing but the truth
November 1, 2009 — peter
Remember, the glass is half broken
October 25, 2009 — peter
Books by Peter Darbyshire
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Diversions- How the H1N1 vaccine is madeThe most striking feature of the H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturing process is the 1,200,000,000 chicken eggs required to make the 3 billion doses of vaccine that may be required worldwide. There are entire chicken farms in the US and around the world dedicated to producing eggs for the purpose of incubating influenza viruses for use in vaccines. No wonder it ta […]Jason Kottke
- Revenue reality of a bestsellerRevenue reality of a bestseller. Lynn Viehl's Twilight Fall was a top 20 mass market paperback bestseller. Here, she analyzes and posts her royalties and discovers "If I published only one book a year, and it did as well as this one, my net would be only around $2500.00 over the income level considered to be the US poverty threshold."HumanComplex
- The Lighthouse KeeperThe latest short to come out of the Gobelins animation school is The Lighthouse Keeper, and it is stunning. So much suspense and beauty is packed into this three minutes of traditional 2D animation. It’s the work of Gaëlle Thierry, Jérémie Moreau, Rony Hotin, Baptiste Rogron, Maïlys Vallade, and David François. Posted by John Martz on Drawn! The Illustration […]John Martz
- Time to get in the water, ya?National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen (previously) relates the harrowing tale of a sweet, insistent, and ferocious lunchmate (note - clip begins with a dramatic drumbeat, mind your speakers) As a side note, jontyjago has shown us that human/leopard seal encounters do not always end well.Hypnotic Chick
- The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model | MagazineChristian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he's got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for(author unknown)
- THE DRUG DOES WORKAt Cambridge over the summer, many students were taking pills to help their concentration. Ed Cumming was among them ...From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2009One evening this summer, in our final term at Cambridge, my roommate Katie threw a party. Our set was in a 17th-century attic, and its sloping ceilings framed a gorgeous view: a panorama taking in […]Ed Cumming
- Guerrilla Marketing | A Hostage Store in Stockholm - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.comCourtesy of Ann Sofie Back A still from the YouTube "hostage" video by the designer Ann Sofie Back. Throughout her career, the Swedish designer Ann Sofie Back has embraced bad taste. Her ripped, stitched, tattered and generally askew aesthetic has been inspired by everything from Wildensteinesque plastic surgery to Lindsay Lohan's lack of unde […](author unknown)
- Master in the makingTurner is hailed as a proto-modernist, a 'painterly' painter concerned more with surface and light than subject matter. But, as a new show reveals, his originality grew out of a fashionable imitation of the Grand StyleTurner is a complicated figure in relation to the big picture of truly great art through the ages. But it's exactly this contex […](author unknown)
- Phantom limbs can contort into impossible configurations : Neurophilosophy (author unknown)
- Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009On the professionalization of faculty life, doctoral training, and the academy’s self-renewal(author unknown)
- How the H1N1 vaccine is made
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