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Something huge and heavy and slow and far away and altogether unknown to him begins to say what it might mean. And then he proceeds to show her. . . .
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
William Vollmann, whose collection The Rainbow Stories
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
“Tensegrity.”
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel

You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer. You are attempting a cycle of very short belletristic pieces, pieces which as it happens are not contes philosophiques and not vignettes or scenarios or allegories or fables, exactly, though neither are they really qualifiable as ‘short stories’ (not even as those upscale microbrewed Flash Fictions that hav
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories
But even when the fog is pointed out, we’re no better at navigating through it.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Team Δy chief Alan Britton, M.S. & J.D., of whom one sensed that no one had ever even once made fun, was an immense and physically imposing man, roughly 6'1" in every direction, with a large smooth shiny oval head in the precise center of which were extremely tiny close-set features arranged in the invulnerably cheerful expression of a man
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
Daytona Lorrain