The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Maybe you’ll read for a while, whereupon you want to read some more.

“Going for a Beer” is a short story by Robert Coover.

[(2011 March 11) • • .]

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What can Brown do for you?

Once, on the first day of class, Angela Carter, who taught at Brown, was asked by a student what her own writing was like. She carefully answered as follows: “My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man’s penis.”

A profile of American creative writing education by Louis Menand on The New Yorker.

[(2009 June 4) • • • .]