“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A bad reviewer is often trying to tell you how smart he is by declaring whether or… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length in yesterday’s commentary). I was wishing that Hamid had written a different book than he had.… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Time is the thing that keeps everything from happening all at once.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Barry wasn’t the kind of jerk who was nice to people only when he needed something from them. As far as I could tell,… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“A good critic is trying to tell you what she has learned about herself from the reading of a particular piece of literature. A… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
“On some level, most novelists write fiction to create order out of chaos. When you shape a fictional story, you can tie every loose… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
