Sublime

New York Times doesn’t triple the length of its bestseller list just because a large number of books are selling especially well;

The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.

His nonfiction persona was, as Wallace told an interviewer, “a little stupider and shmuckier than I am.”

to gather and make accessible and useful the world’s information—in

James

“basically an enormous eyeball floating around something, reporting what it sees.”

Max’s comments were effective almost subliminally; he had a way of gently tossing them out as one would pebbles into a pond, making rings of meaning which enlarged until they touched the author’s consciousness.

and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.

Burgess’s novel showed how to use hyperbolic language to convey deadened emotional states.