Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise”—a
Ron Chernow • Alexander Hamilton
When he saw what clawed its way out through the willows he shook his head. Kindly fell on hard times aint ye son? he said. I just aint fell on no good ones.
Cormac McCarthy • Blood Meridian
Paris, where he hobnobbed with many other American expatriates, Fitzgerald among them.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
A fate, cruel and unmerited!
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
sable
Edith Wharton • House of Mirth
It was the symphony or silence.
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Mark Twain’s sentiment in “The Two Testaments”—that “when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free”—seemed