The Nix: A novel
The single best thing you can do for the world. It occurs to her: The problem begins with that word world. It means two such opposite things. The real one we cannot see. The invented one we can’t escape. She lifts the glass and hears her father read out loud: Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
All this made me think of Joan Didion’s most famous sentence: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” It’s a sentence that has found its way onto Pinterest boards, T-shirts, and coffee mugs, as though it were a consoling affirmation of The Power of Storytelling. It is not.
The sentence is the first one of Didion’s essay “The White Album,” whi... See more
The sentence is the first one of Didion’s essay “The White Album,” whi... See more