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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
He had created a cocoon of human activities – conversation, interaction, affection – and it filled his life like an overflowing soup bowl.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
My enormous Form of Fiction class, which has grown to about 80 students, and which is still growing, thanks to late registrants, is being broken up into two sections (“A” and “B”—what else?), each meeting for two hours once a week. “A” meets from 3:30 until 5:30 on Tuesday, and “B” meets at the same time on Wednesday. So, from Wednesday at 5:30
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Ben Bowers • J.Crew’s ‘The Bear’ Collab Celebrates the Show’s Best Characters
“My notebook is the microbial fungus of ideas and images I draw on when I’m writing,” he said when we first spoke.
Adam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
My favorite insight into Kershaw came after I asked him at the end how much he enjoyed those special days when everything goes right. He said he enjoys them, obviously; he was clearly giddy with joy after his no-hitter against Colorado in 2014, for example. But he said that while those days are fun, he had trouble with the phrase “special days.”
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