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1. This week I read and related to Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer’s book about writing about D. H. Lawrence. I will be honest and admit that I decided to read it after a positive mention in O Magazine. If you want to be like, “Writing is fucking hard,” except all of your writer friends are all, “I know, Sister, I got rejected by the Prospect’s website yesterday, let’s talk about word rates” and your nonwriter friends are like, “Oh you and your pen and your pajamas and your lofty thoughts,” then this is the book for you. I underlined this: “Freelance writers are notoriously obsessed with money.” (And I am not a habitual underliner! I prefer to read with my hands free of a pen.)

   I really loved this part: ”Writers always envy artists, would trade places with them in a moment if they could. The painter’s life seems less ascetic, less monkish, less hunched. Instead of the austere mess of the desk there is the chaos of the studio: dirty coffee cups, paint-smudged cassette decks, drawings of the artist’s girlfriend, naked, on the walls… In the age of the computer the writer’s office or study will increasingly resemble the customer service desk of an ailing small business. The artist’s studio, though, is still what it has always been: an erotic space. For the writer the artist’s studio is, essentially a place where women undress.”

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   Hahah, oh… it’s pretty much true.

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    She refers to “Out of Sheer Rage” by Geoff Dyer, a real gem of a book.

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    Am Not a Painter (Frank O’Hara)...am not a painter,...poet....

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