Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Dianna enjoys recognizing and classifying living things that she can pick up, handle, and share with others, which is why she was drawn to fungi. Alvaro Jamarillo also shares Dianna’s desire to recognize and classify living things—but he is driven to classify creatures that are mobile, colorful, and elusive. Today, he is a professional birder.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Every one imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive—character—is all that matters in the end.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
extreme prejudice. A lion and a lamb lying side by side,
Gary Shteyngart • Lake Success: A Novel

Maira had wanted to introduce her to Ansel Fleming for some time. It was not a setup, Maira said, though frankly Ivy wouldn’t have minded a setup. Just someone to have coffee with, said Maira. Though Ivy didn’t need a new friend, already neglecting many of her friends, since the eclipse made by motherhood. Maira was an expansive person, always want
... See moreSusan Minot • Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel
She had caused him trouble. He had only been kind to her.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
The one constant was 21 and 42. Rick never tired of watching the alpha pair, especially 21, who was unlike any wolf he had ever seen. Even before 21 left his natal pack, Rick had known he was unusual. One morning in the spring of 1997, two years after Doug Smith and Carter Niemeyer rescued 21 following the death of his father, Rick watched the hand
... See moreNate Blakeslee • American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
as a traveler between scientific and traditional ways of knowing,