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A.O. SCOTT • How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think
contrivance,
Elizabeth Gilbert • The Signature of All Things: A Novel
Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
And a named apple is a patentable apple, as Olivia’s father would tell her. She once fought with him over a case of his. He was helping a transnational company prosecute a farmer who’d saved some of last year’s soybean crop and replanted, without paying royalties again. She was outraged. “You can’t own the rights to a living thing!” “You can. You
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Elmore Leonard, starting Get Shorty, labored over “When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio’s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off.”
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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