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John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
In his memoir Self-Consciousness, John Updike wrote that he was offering his as “a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.”
Terry Gross • All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
asperity.
Stephen King • Holly
Adam waits, month by month, for the choked black walnut to die and take his baby brother with it, smothered in his own clown-covered coverlet. But both live, which only proves to Adam that life is trying to say something no one hears.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“The Thomas Crown Affair,”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Near-adolescent romantic haze befuddling me as I ascended stairs. But reality cannot be ignored; we must grow up.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
He remembered: deaths. Jimmy first.