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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
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Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
It had never before occurred to me that sometimes dishes weren’t just dishes, that things could represent ideas in more powerful ways than the ideas themselves.
Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
Roy and the old couple, Harvey and Rita, were the only ones left. They brought Roy to New York when he was barely twenty-five and set him up running “errands” now and again for some heavy people in Brooklyn. As a rule, they didn’t trust him with anything too complicated, on account of they didn’t think Roy was all that bright. Outside of Albert, no
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