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respite,
Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
thumbing the thin pages for answers to the little questions as if following the better part of God’s law was achieved by divining from Leviticus what to have for supper or what color socks to wear.
Smith Henderson • Fourth of July Creek: A Novel
malady
Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
(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
temporizing.
Ben Marcus • New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
He’s a study in contrasts, a rare person who sees little conflict in owning many identities at once.
Caroline Van Hemert • The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
acquiescence.
George Saunders • Tenth of December: Stories
“I wish I could observe life like Maggie Nelson,” I said to my manager.
“You can,” he replied. “I think reading literature makes one much more attentive. I go from ‘writing op-eds about who is good and who is bad’ to ‘writing vignettes about what's amusing, unusual, or thematically resonant’ in my head. It's like, ‘What genre do I want my internal ... See more
“You can,” he replied. “I think reading literature makes one much more attentive. I go from ‘writing op-eds about who is good and who is bad’ to ‘writing vignettes about what's amusing, unusual, or thematically resonant’ in my head. It's like, ‘What genre do I want my internal ... See more