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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
She’d once called her autism her special asset—“my microscope, telescope, and laser, put together.”
Richard Powers • Bewilderment: A Novel
the human megaphone is in full swing.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life in as high a regard, and may dispose of it at will.
George Saunders • Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
“There are a lot of things I wrote in the eighties that weren’t right,” he told me. “The big change was my having children. I know it’s a cliché, but once you have children you start to understand that everyone is somebody’s baby. It is an insiders-outsiders thing. You grow up and these people are characters on TV or video games or baseball cards—y
... See moreNate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
White boys thought the world of themselves, thought the world was themselves, and that anything otherwise was out of place, needed to be noticed or ignored.
Tommy Orange • Wandering Stars
How does one thrive through a maelstrom of change? By standing on ground that is permanent.