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Tao Lin on Substack
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View from a Venetian Window
“He went to the window and stared at the vines that had started their yearly pilgrimage up the inside of the fence around the house on the other side of the canal. As spring advanced, it would creep over the top of the fence and head down towards its real object, the water of the canal, only to stop ten centimetres above
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alina stefanescu, writer
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It isn’t so much that geniuses make it look easy; it’s that they make it look fast.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
Forbidden Notebook could also be read as a book of encouragement: encouragement to dig deeply, in the Ferrantian sense, into one’s self and one’s relations with other people. It’s not an easy process—starting with finding the time and the space, the privacy to do it—and Valeria is constantly vowing to stop: to stop writing and get rid of the diary,
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Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
