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His inconsistency. His inability to finish anything. His sudden terrifying feelings that nothing he did mattered. His realizations that what went on in the outside world had more substance than anything in his life.
Lydia Davis • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Minor feelings are not often featured in contemporary American literature because these emotions do not conform to the archetypal narrative that highlights survival and self-determination.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Who is speaking, what is being said, and what is the relation between the two?
Vivian Gornick • The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
![Cover of Middlemarch [with Biographical Introduction]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61sSRekZg5L.jpg)
When you’re in middle age, which I am (mid-middle age, to be precise—I’m now 52), you start to realize how very much you need your friends. They’re the flora and fauna in a life that hasn’t had much diversity, because you’ve been so busy—so relentlessly, stupidly busy—with middle-age things: kids, house, spouse, or some modern-day version of Zorba’
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