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When he saw what clawed its way out through the willows he shook his head. Kindly fell on hard times aint ye son? he said. I just aint fell on no good ones.
Cormac McCarthy • Blood Meridian
Love, as all the good novels know, is a question of title, deed, and possession.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,” Pat... See more
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I loved her as a Chinese mandarin might love a flower, beautiful in itself, unquestionably beautiful to live with.
Geoffrey Household • Rogue Male (New York Review Books Classics)
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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
He loved reading stories in the American magazines that asked “What if?” and subtly questioned conventionally accepted assumptions and rules—both scientific and cultural.