Sublime

The book hinges on this kind of contrast: the purity and otherworldliness of the game, and the human mess and wreckage that almost always surround it.

cherub

I was greatly affected by Saul Bellow’s novel Humboldt’s Gift,

the speculative novelist becomes a satirist; he looks around, and he makes it worse.

the embodiment of the Victorian establishment, was a subversive. He was unhappy because his children were not subversives

the first story that, as he later put it, “rang his cherries” was Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”

her aura of near-pathological inauthenticity.

The business of the progression of time seems to me one of the most difficult problems a novelist has to cope with.

rights of man,