music clip of the day

Some voices seem to come from another world.

Skip James, “Devil Got My Woman,” 1931

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lagniappe

reading table: variations on a theme

I sometimes think that an idea is the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

—David Vann, New York Times, 1/14/11

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[A]ll ideas . . . fail to work at some point . . .

—David Kirby, “L’Explication de Tasty-Fuck”

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Ideas are always wrong.

—William Bronk, “Blue Spruces in Pairs, A Bird Bath Between”