Matt Dean
author of the river in winter
2010 lambda literary award finalist
My first novel, The River in Winter, was published in 2009. I'm working on my second novel, The Wide Night Sky. I live in South Carolina with my partner and our cranky Jack Russell terrier. I like cake. Pancakes, too. Pancakes are good.
I made a video with Birchbox Man with 5 easy tips on how to be a grown-up. This is something I’m very qualified to talk about.
Honestly, most excited to work in a cameo from my late 90’s promotional HBO throw pillow, easily my most prized possession.
Miroirs No. 4. Alborada del gracioso – Dinu Lipatti
Maurice Ravel - Miroirs No. 4. Alborada del gracioso
performed by Dinu Lipatti (piano)
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.
– Bill Watterson (via mikekarnell)(via condalmo)
A Writer’s Rule Book
From Hunter’s Writing
I like this.
“Cut the last paragraph of every chapter.” Intriguing.
That paragraph is usually intended to go out on a high note. I bet more than a third of the time it overshoots the mark.
(via writersrelief)
Just as the moving mists and clouds adopt the most diverse shapes in constant integration, diffusion and re-formation, thus the moving voices in music result in constantly changing harmonies.
– Ernst “the world’s most forgotten composer” Toch (via melophobic)(via gentlemangraffitist)
What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes more than anything to be unwakened by what she cannot name?
– Mark Strand, from “No Words Can Describe It” (via awritersruminations)
A piece for a journey
-Symphony no. 8 unfinished, Schubert
Underlined passage, Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann.
