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millionsmillions: “In my hypotheses, it is the loneliness quality in particular, physically and intellectually inherent to the act of reading, that lays the bedrock for the powerful social bonding achieved through literature. The limitlessness is critical too, as it promises a bounty of fertile avenues for conversation, but it’s the loneliness of the reader — or, as Rainer Maria Rilke might say, it’s how “two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other” — that assigns to a very special category those friendships formed over books.”-Bryan Basamanowicz, “From the Library of Your Soul-Mate: The Unique Social Bond of Literature.” Image is a still from the film La Chinoise.

millionsmillions:

“In my hypotheses, it is the loneliness quality in particular, physically and intellectually inherent to the act of reading, that lays the bedrock for the powerful social bonding achieved through literature. The limitlessness is critical too, as it promises a bounty of fertile avenues for conversation, but it’s the loneliness of the reader — or, as Rainer Maria Rilke might say, it’s how “two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other” — that assigns to a very special category those friendships formed over books.”
-Bryan Basamanowicz, “From the Library of Your Soul-Mate: The Unique Social Bond of Literature.”

Image is a still from the film La Chinoise.

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thetinhouse: Reading at Powell’s Books with Leni Zumas, author of The Listeners Wednesday, May 16, 7:30pm Powell’s City of Books1005 W BurnsidePortland, OR 97209 “Leni Zumas’s visceral debut novel is a darkly funny and disturbing rager. Weaving a dreamlike coming-of-age story with the melancholic tales of a rock band self-destructing and a family’s loss, Zumas’s deft language careens through the lives of her characters with killer sentence after killer sentence. It’s a crushing, dazzling performance.” —Kevin Sampsell,  A Common Pornography

thetinhouse:

Reading at Powell’s Books with Leni Zumas, author of The Listeners

Wednesday, May 16, 7:30pm

Powell’s City of Books
1005 W Burnside
Portland, OR 97209

“Leni Zumas’s visceral debut novel is a darkly funny and disturbing rager. Weaving a dreamlike coming-of-age story with the melancholic tales of a rock band self-destructing and a family’s loss, Zumas’s deft language careens through the lives of her characters with killer sentence after killer sentence. It’s a crushing, dazzling performance.” —Kevin Sampsell,  A Common Pornography

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