“I can’t really tell objectively how sorry I should feel for myself. I don’t give…
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We live, I’ve heard, in a civilized country, in a civilized time. – “Parts,” by…
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DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/25/1940. New English Weekly, review of The Thirties, authored by ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR…
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A moody Republican, long considered a national joke, is elected President of the United States…
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Blind Reads: In which wallflower and Avathoir read each other’s favorite books without knowing a…
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When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
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In Underworld, Don deLillo tried to do what John le Carré did with The Secret…
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There are only victims. (last line of Scott Turow’s Pleading Guilty) The modern industrial age…
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But that is the writer’s life. You write. You finish. You start over again. (Dunne,…
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There are few books better to read at Renaissance faire than As You Wish: Inconceivable…
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