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1Q84 (Vintage International)
So Beautiful World is basically raising a canonical question—“How can we read or write novels (or care about love affairs) in the face of human misery”—and addressing it in the traditional way: by representing interiority and love affairs compellingly enough to keep you turning the pages—ideally, persuading you that, when people are fighting for th... See more
Elif Batuman • Interesting Abyss, Where Are You?
Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and her ex-husband and everything they’d been through were behind her. Nothing is ever behind us. •
Roberto Bolaño • 2666: Picador Classic
from-the-headlines songwriting.) I don’t remember if either Blind Willie Johnson or Minnie Wallace ever came up while we were making Game Theory, but those were the kinds of songs we had in mind: outward blues. The world had just gone wrong, was continuing to go wrong, whether it was the breached levees in New Orleans or the murder rate in Philadel
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The concepts of time, space, and possibility.