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Anne was then transferred to the Langley Porter Clinic, in San Francisco, for two weeks. She was released with instructions to continue with her medication for a further two to three months. Whatever PKD’s motivations for this action, relations within the marriage did not improve. In his novel Now Wait for Last Year (1966), written in the autumn of
... See moreAnthony Peake • A Life of Philip K. Dick: The Man Who Remembered the Future
have just reread The Age of Innocence. Poor Countess Olenska, so much more alive than everyone in New York. She was better than Newland Archer, to whom she couldn’t give herself because she was married. It didn’t matter to society that she had been wronged by her husband. They felt her life was over.
Ann Patchett • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Thirty years later, Perkins would be appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as secretary of labor—the first woman member of a presidential cabinet. Appalled by what she witnessed at the Triangle fire, and how preventable the deaths could have been had the employees had better working conditions—as simple as fire escapes and unlocked doors—Perkin
... See moreMorgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
Hitchcockian protagonist,
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2

Which are you? he asked the silver squiggle. Dark dead yin or brilliant living yang?
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
Tyrena Wingreen-Feif was my first editor at Transline. It was her idea to title the book The Dying Earth (a records search showed a novel by that name five hundred years earlier, but the copyright had lapsed and the book was out of print).
Dan Simmons • Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 1)
Sir Godwin’s rudeness towards her and utter want of feeling ranged him with Dover and all other creditors – disagreeable people who only thought of themselves, and did not mind how annoying they were to her. Even her father was unkind, and might have done more for them. In fact there was but one person in Rosamond’s world whom she did not regard as
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