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Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
To Pollak, this was a demonstration not of Bill Baker’s cruelty but of his acumen—in this case to push his deep belief that science rests on a foundation of inquiry rather than certainty. Also, it revealed how nimble Baker’s mind really was. “A very small number of times in my life I’ve been in the presence of somebody who didn’t necessarily answer
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
“Professors,” Mr. Flogg murmured in a tone recognizable to anyone who has had an essay returned to them covered in red ink.
India Holton • The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic Book 1)
The key to ironic progression is certainty and precision.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
I’m trying to get at the parts that I think are amazing…the things I care about.”
Lorne M. Buchman • Make to Know
To, as DFW via Rilke put it: disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
Sean Thor Conroe • Fuccboi: A Novel
A pale man with pince-nez, he had the kind of face it is impossible to recall within five minutes of seeing it, and owed his appointment to the fact that all the other candidates for the Vice Chancellorship had enough personality to acquire enemies.
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
might will do,