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High Fructose corn sugar was the result of [neomania](https://www.shortform.com/blog/neomania-antifragile/), financed by a Nixon administration in love with technology and victim of some urge to subsidize corn farmers
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.
Kurt Vonnegut • Breakfast of Champions
GETTING THE READER IN THE CAR
Steve Almond • Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
“‘Turning me into a vulgar Jew,’ Harold said, ‘what have I done to make me so malicious? I’ve boxed with you, played tennis with you, brought you oysters from Prunier, bottles of Pouilly-Fuissé, introduced you to influential people, helped you meet Paris publishers, only to have people everywhere pointing—There goes Harold Loeb, the repulsive Jew i
... See moreA. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Ernest signaled the waiter to replenish the daiquiris. Looking at my littered plate, he gave me a puzzled look. “Why’d you leave the shrimp heads? That’s the best part.” He picked one up and crunched it happily. I crunched one but not happily.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
Scott Baker
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George Saunders
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