Sublime
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His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Pragmatic Chaos
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Pursue your personal canon to its obscure points of origin.
Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
Here is an overt premise. There is just no way that 2004’s reelection could have taken place—not to mention extraordinary rendi-tions, legalized torture, FISA-flouting, or the 6
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
Harpers.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
malaprop.