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O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Common Objects of Love: Moral Reflection and the Shaping of Community; The 2001 Stob Lectures
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He had a sort of sunken depth of expression, and a grave, slow smile, suggesting no great quickness of wit, but an unimpassioned intensity of feeling which promised well for Martha’s happiness. He had little of the light, inexpensive urbanity of his countrymen, and more of a sort of heavy sincerity in his gaze which seemed to suspend response until
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
The younger lawyer was named Marcus, he was from Shaker Heights, he had attended Penn, where he had majored in philosophy and lettered in rowing. After a stint working in a rural Mississippi town with Teach for America, he had gone on to Stanford Law School. He had a lovely wife of Korean ancestry and a six-month-old baby and was just days away fro
... See moreNeal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
He brimmed with that most conventional and embarrassing of qualities—“taste.”