Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
F. Scott Fitzgerald, another author nurtured by Maxwell Perkins, once declared that the test of a first-rate intelligence was the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind without cracking up.
Joshua Wolf Shenk • Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
My First Summer in the Sierra
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
and he appeared to have diminished somewhat; I don’t mean physically diminished, but some of the aura of indomitableness seemed to have gone out of him.
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
Death of an Author
and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Omensetter’s Luck, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and Blood Meridian, but added Jerzy Kosinski’s little-known Steps,