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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
Lydia Davis • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Wesley Yang • What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
gnomish quality about everything. A smaller-than-life quality, with a dash of the droll. What is this five-thousand-year-old book? The Mickey Mouse watch, Mr Tagomi himself, the fragile cup in Mr Tagomi’s hand … and, on the wall facing Mr Baynes, an enormous buffalo head, ugly and menacing.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
“Clara used to work in infant wear,” the manager explains, “selling onesies.”
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
voyeurism
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he differed from the great herd of the common run of men, not even in his despair at not making a difference or in the great hunger to have an impact that in his late twenties he’d clung to as evidence that even though he was emerging as sort of a failure
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
The first, best chronicler of the chopped-salad economy’s accelerationist nightmare was Matt Buchanan, who wrote at The Awl in 2015: