Tag: fiction
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”Caledonian Road”, by Andrew O’Hagan
“Maybe that’s what postmodernism was in the end: the naming of emotion, as opposed to having it.”
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”Cahokia Jazz”, by Francis Spufford
“My point, Detective, is that this very ancient city is not over. It is not in the past. It persists, it endures, it survives.”
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”The Satsuma Complex”, by Bob Mortimer
“I flicked through my recent phone calls so that I could have a good long stare at her telephone number.”
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”The Bee Sting”, by Paul Murray
“That’s the past, isn’t it. You think it’s behind you, then one day you walk into a room and it’s there waiting for you.”
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”Baumgartner”, by Paul Auster
“If you are the one who lives on, you will discover that the amputated part of you, the phantom part of you, can still be a source of profound, unholy pain.”
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“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow”, by Gabrielle Zevin
“There’s no point in making something if you don’t think it’ll be great.”
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Sharper, More Detailed, and Less Abstract
Lazenby on the dimensional relationship between fiction and reality.
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“Last Summer Boys” by Bill Rivers
Conservative speechwriter pens partly successful novel.
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”No One Is Talking About This” by Patricia Lockwood
I never thought it possible to write a novel based on two words, but Lockwood drains everything possible from ‘terminally online’. Her skill in celebrating and skewering meme culture is, I think, unmatched. I didn’t cry until I read the acknowledgements but, then, boy howdy.