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Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
The reader is the little car. The writer’s task is to place gas stations around the track so that the reader will keep reading and make it to the end of the story. What are those gas stations? Well, manifestations of writerly charm, basically. Anything that inclines the reader to keep going. Bursts of honesty, wit, powerful language, humor; a pithy
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Anton, a sales associate burdened with a deeply unfortunate Bluetooth earpiece;
Robin Sloan • Sourdough: A Novel
perfunctory
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
I think life is a kind of laboratory where you can try anything.
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
