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watching bored teenage jerk-offs hack apart someone you used to love. Even if she was dead. He wasn’t without empathy, but he was still young, and the pain of other people embarrassed him.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
grabbed me
Junot Diaz • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
asleep, I fantasized about miraculous escapes, but all of them required help from other people, and who would help me? It would have to be someone I didn’t know: a rescuer, the warden of a hidden door, the keeper of a secret password.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
Svengalis who had hypnotized our northern brethren and some
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
a few clowns short of the full circus,
Joe Hill • NOS4A2: A Novel
Delmore Schwartz’s “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.”