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- Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write…
- Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly,…
- To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you…
- I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I…
- Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message:…
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