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Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.
Joan Didion • The White Album: Essays
I miss and love with all my purple fist a strange girl from a flamboyant and frightening family, in many ways a flamboyant and frightening girl, perched high in the crow’s nest of the Frequent and Vigorous vessel, scanning gray electrical expanses for the lonely spout of a legitimate telephone call.
David Foster Wallace • The Broom of the System: A Novel
Wherever her family went, she became the node that connected all wandering Americans worth knowing.
Hernan Diaz • Trust
I would be the promise she didn’t get to realize.
Carolyn Murnick • The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
gregarious.
Lisa Taddeo • Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” to illustrate the unreliable narrator
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
It’s a good place to live; there’s a lot to think about. The creeks—Tinker and Carvin ’s—are an active mystery, fresh every minute.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
Tim Kreider (TIMKREIDER.COM) is an essayist and cartoonist. His most recent book is We Learn Nothing,