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As I left the landing, I had the peculiar thought that I was not the first to pocket the photo, that someone would always come behind to replace it, to circle the lighthouse keeper again.
Jeff VanderMeer • Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
Only an attractive young woman would take for granted a stranger’s interest in the minutiae of her life.
Adelle Waldman • The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
abeyance
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
The thought was disquieting—that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives.
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
I’ll hold all your terrific ugly.
Franny Choi • Floating, Brilliant, Gone
eschew
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
I couldn’t help but notice the placidity of a small, all-female household.
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
Into this fog slipped Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare . The novel, Butler’s third, is the story of Moddie, an overeducated and underachieving thirtysomething who, following a seismic breakup, abandons Chicago for her Midwestern hometown, where she tries to get a grip on her life. It’s a sharp book, with painfully real characters and perfectly pitche... See more
The Paris Review • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
She had a proprietary way of admiring other people’s possessions, as if all good taste were in some measure a tribute to herself.