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Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
We live like beggars.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.
Anthony Doerr • Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
if I had to narrow down the greatest gratitude of my university years, it would be reading Toni Morrison—specifically, reading Beloved. Perhaps more than any other text, Beloved made me the person I am. It’s the book that altered my personal and creative DNA.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
covetous
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
Lady Duff Twysden, a character right out of a very good English novel who had lost her way. Her look was original, her chic was original, and God knows her speech and her capacity for drink were all original.