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You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer. You are attempting a cycle of very short belletristic pieces, pieces which as it happens are not contes philosophiques and not vignettes or scenarios or allegories or fables, exactly, though neither are they really qualifiable as ‘short stories’ (not even as those upscale microbrewed Flash Fictions that
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories
He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
truculent
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
enigmatic
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
chauvinist
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
No contemporary American art; only the past could be represented here, in a store such as his.