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William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought. These people seemed to think it singularly inspiring to keep on saying that the prison was very large. The size of this scientific universe gave one no novelty, no relief. The cosmos went on for ever, but not in its wildest constellation could there b
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
From George Saunders, on nuance and embracing complexity:
... See morethe writer doesn't have to have a fixed firm idea, but has to be able to take the reader on a journey to remind her that the world is complicated. From the very beginning, I understood writing to be about some kind of moral or ethical imperative. Absent that, I'm not that interested in it, ac
Gass created self-conscious, postmodernist fictions that put more emphasis on form and language than on conventional storytelling.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
He hears his dead undergrad mentor quoting Mark Twain. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. “In the field. I seem to have gotten a little lost.”