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Philip Gabriel • The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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
Brought face-to-face with the limits of his ability—of anyone’s ability—to master fate or turn back time, Charlie began reaching for the things he could control: his own actions, his own emotions, his own outlook, his own grit.
David Von Drehle • The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
Sylvanshine could almost literally see the small pink man drinking Pepto-Bismol straight out of the bottle and going home to a woman who treated him like an uninteresting stranger.
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
There’s this dazzling short story by Ted Chiang called “Liking What You See” that did a number on me.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
transmogrification.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
legs almost too small to see, circling his
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
structured fun