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David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
the ‘unexpected reaction’,
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
It’s the surprise part that Orwell couldn’t predict. He was looking in the wrong direction. Total surveillance. The privatisation of the private.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
soothing susurrus of muttered conversations
William Boyd • Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
Language is a sometimes surprisingly flexible regime.
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
Mike Leigh, the British director of numerous excruciating comedies,