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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Burgess’s novel showed how to use hyperbolic language to convey deadened emotional states.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
This desperate remark – unverifiable, and anyway meaningless
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
apotheosis,”
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
aberrational
Anna Burns • Milkman
And instead of rooting them out, the plan is to let them flourish—but within a walled garden from which they cannot escape and spread their evil seed.”