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Paul Murray • The Bee Sting: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023
He popped the blister packet he pulled from his back pocket, chewing the two purple tablets en route to the kitchen, the taste bitter on his tongue. He didn’t know what was in them – the Harley Street medic prescribed them. “In the circumstances, Michael…” that is to say “bearing in mind you’ll be dead soon, you can have these experimental drugs”.
... See moreJudith O'Reilly • Killing State
“The Journalist and the Murderer,” by Janet Malcolm
newyorker.com
Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.
