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Burgess’s novel showed how to use hyperbolic language to convey deadened emotional states.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The kind of guy some kids think is a child-eating troll but other kids suspect, correctly, is a secret wizard.
Kate Racculia • Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts
He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
calligraphy. In one corner sat a qalander a holy fool - deep in animated conversation with an invisible djinn. He sat squatting on his calves, nodding and smiling, lifting his hands in protestation, twitching his head from side to side.
William Dalrymple • City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
Martin Amis’s The Information,
David Lipsky • Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
looked like a carp, with a receding chin and goggly eyes,
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
“You will note that where you would think should be the end of Jonah, there was his safety.”
Paul Auster • The Invention of Solitude
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king.