John Scalzi Quotation
Source: The Amazon Book Review
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On Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin”
Commentary on one of my all-time favorite Big Books: The Blind Assassin (2000) is a multilayered and deftly plotted work of autobiographical and historical fiction set in 20th-century Canada. In just the first few pages, layers of family history and mystery unfurl by way of a trifecta of memoir flashback, newspaper clippings and novel-within-a-novel narratives.
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A New Newspaper Column on Crime Books
Detective novels are, for me, a sort of literary comfort food; a respite from real life — in which problems aren’t always neatly wrapped up — and a chance to walk in the sensibly shod footsteps of a crime-solver . . . , analyzing clues and side-eyeing witnesses and, ultimately, making the world a tiny
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Quotation: Elena Ferrante: Storytelling as Power
There is one form of power that has fascinated me ever since I was a girl, even though it has been widely colonized by men: the power of storytelling. Telling stories really is a kind of power, and not an insignificant one. Stories give shape to experience, sometimes by accommodating traditional literary forms, sometimes by
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Quotation: Susan Sontag Was a Monster
“She took things too seriously. She was difficult and unyielding. That’s why Susan Sontag’s work matters so much even now.” This is how I see her monstrosity: residing not in whether she was or was not likeable, but in her relentlessness, and her refusal to pander. The word ‘monster’ comes from the Latin monere, to
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Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
17 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes You Never Hear While best known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, King’s legacy included much more than that. Memorable words here.
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Life Stories
“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.” ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Novelist Lev Grossman on Narrative
Lev Grossman: My depression helped inspire the Magicians trilogy – Salon.com. I think literary critics — of whom you’re one and I’m another — are much better at describing beauty on the sentence level than we are at talking about the grace of a narrative twist or wonderful pacing or the thrilling tension that a
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Are You a Handwriter or a Typer? | boy with a hat
Handwriting is like making love; typing, like having sex. It’s essentially the same enjoyable activity, but the approach is slightly different. via Are You a Handwriter or a Typer? | boy with a hat. Random blog quotation.
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Quotation of the Day
“Everything I write is about the stories people tell themselves about themselves to make life more bearable, which basically is what all people do all the time.” — mystery novelist Laura Lippman Source: ‘Most Dangerous Thing’ a tale of summertime & secrets kept
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