Things to Share for a Sunday

First, I promised I'd share Helene's blog, TBR Number One, in which she cheerfully eviscerates the Times' bestseller lists. She was reading David McCullough on the trip to Baton Rouge, so stay tuned for her next essay.

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The Story of the Story of O is an interesting essay about the making of the work and its author.

The author said later that Story of O, written when she was forty-seven, was based on her own fantasies. She was influenced, too, by her lover’s admiration for the Marquis de Sade. Later she described her feverish writing process as “writing the way you speak in the dark to the person you love when you’ve held back the words of love for too long and they flow at last … without hesitation, without stopping, rewriting, discarding … the way one breathes, the way one dreams.”

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Time for some XMFC love:

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both via Fuck Yeah Charles and Erik.

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I have had ridiculous writing block and the attention-span of a flea today. I've got some vacation coming up soon which I hope will recharge my batteries, but mostly I'm kind of alarmed and how quickly the summer is going by and how much stuff I still have to do. In other words, should there be radio silence--hopefully it means I'm being uber-productive.