“I was twenty-eight years old and till then had held my nose to be, if not beautiful, at least wholly inoffensive, in keeping with the rest of me.” Read from Luigi Pirandello’s novel One, None, and a Hundred Grand, translated by Sean Wilsey.

just putting it out there - any discourse happening on this site about Shel Silverstein, I am very available for...

Alexis Wright recounts the time Aboriginal leader Tracker Tilmouth when to the United Nations in Geneva: “When you go to the UN no one is allowed to bring anything political because no state is to be upset or whatever. So we brought it all.”

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”