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Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
She changed into an expensive T-shirt Simon had bought for her, then sat around, waiting, like the end of every day was a first date.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
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Vladimir Nabokov • Selected Poems
Wolfgang Fey Freeman Fry
David Sedaris • Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
(I find myself thinking of Terry Eagleton’s assertion that “capitalism plunders the sensuality of the body.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
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
She had a stash of such aprons, each with a seasonal theme—pumpkins, snowflakes—and at least five crisp, striped shirtwaist dresses.