D’Antonio Ballesteros

@t1mothyallen @penguinusa Only the most Heroically Consenseuous Explicawtion to this quoquoquisintestyon

@penguinusa Finnegans Wake

If you could only re-read one book for the rest of your life, which would it be? 📚

@goodreads Oh you know… This and that.

It’s Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

@penguinusa Currently 14…

How many books do you read at once? 📚

@PipelineArtists Very funny piece. One of my favorites.

"Oh, how differently this 'Thank you' reads from the one earlier—how bitter, how nostalgic. And truly, who can’t feel the dejection in that pitiful send-off 'best of luck'?" - @danteanantonio New on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/shout-and-murm… #WritingCommunity #amwriting

@dzappa68 @LucasFerrero83 @TheUntranslated When you realize they don’t give it to him because they’re worried he won’t show up to accept it: 😶

@LucasFerrero83 @TheUntranslated 💔

My Nobel Prize for Literature candidates

@seeshespeak James Joyce. Currently 104 pages into Finnegans Wake and going strongarmsturdy 💪

Tell me about an author for whom you are an incorrigible completist — e.g. you have, or else will, read everything they’ve ever written.

@harukimurakami_ Enter: Cormac McCarthy

@MusicOfLee I would say either “Sax. & Percussion” or “What if we could still write love songs?” because I think they, though in very different ways, get at exactly what the piece is doing.

#Composers, let's talk titles. What is your favourite title that you've ever given to a work?

@addiebrook I also think it’s important to know what emotional journey I want to take the reader on, since that will play a huge role in the ordering. (Also taking into consideration variety and keeping the readers attention.)

@addiebrook For me (I’m a composer as well as writer), it’s really about rhythm and juxtaposition. The piece has to have some logic, but not being chronological, the logic comes from how the fragments bounce off of each other. (1/2)

@mikemwilson Italo Calvino — Invisible Cities (this thing is a masterclass on how to write gorgeous prose). Anything by Pynchon (but his prose is beautiful in a very Pynchonian way) And Kevin Barry’s “That Old Country Music” for something more recent

@toddedillard I’ll often think a poem is good when I’ve just finished it, but after writing a couple others I’ll go back and think it’s garbage. This goes on for a while. It’s gotten to the point where I’m always suspicious when I think a piece of mine is good.

have you ever written a poem and it's not good