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I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
She may agree with the poet Mary Oliver that “creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration. . . . It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching,” or with Gertrude Stein, who warned, “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
Julie Phillips • The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The Company You Keep
Chicago is a collection of dreams flickering with hustle and quietude, an empty storefront with a line out the door. The exacting grid, western bound streets, the sun setting, and back-lit signs no longer saying a thing.
That famous triangle, “fast, cheap, good—pick two”, doesn't really apply here. In Chicago, we deliver all thr... See more
Chicago is a collection of dreams flickering with hustle and quietude, an empty storefront with a line out the door. The exacting grid, western bound streets, the sun setting, and back-lit signs no longer saying a thing.
That famous triangle, “fast, cheap, good—pick two”, doesn't really apply here. In Chicago, we deliver all thr... See more
The Company You Keep
We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Early Work — Andrew Martin, author of Early Work and Cool for America
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