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Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
The waiter looked amazed and then perplexed.
Raymond Carver • Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Vintage Classics)
He was silent for an agent’s lifetime.
Leo Marks • Between Silk and Cyanide
reminded me of the standard photographs of the karma-defunct being shipped to the holding freezers for an indefinite term of storage. Same difference, I guess.
Jonathan Lethem • Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
fiction with detail and nuance.
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
I felt like an executor of his spiritual estate, parsing out wisdom or delight. And I wanted to be told the same kinds of stories.
Hua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
mise-en-scène
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
Then he was up for hours, in a spell, agitated by rickety thoughts and weakened by an ebbing of the spirit. It wasn’t Spencer that undid him, or a supervisor or a new antagonist slumbering in room 2, rather it was that he’d stopped fighting. In keeping his head down, in his careful navigation so that he made it to lights-out without mishap, he fool
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