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Peter Rock
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in Salt Lake City, Utah, The United States
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My Abandonment
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2009
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34 editions
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Klickitat
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2016
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10 editions
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The Night Swimmers
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2019
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8 editions
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The Shelter Cycle
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2013
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13 editions
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Passersthrough
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The Bewildered
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2005
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7 editions
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The Unsettling
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2006
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7 editions
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This Is the Place
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1997
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5 editions
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The Ambidextrist: A Novel
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2002
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6 editions
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Carnival Wolves
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1998
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More about Diane Williams
Friends! A brief respite from my half-assed self-promotion; when I was writing a review of VICKY SWANKY IS A BEAUTY by Diane Williams, I remembered this tiny essay I wrote about a sentence of hers that has long bedeviled me:
http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/9325/the... Read more of this blog post »
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| And I carried this new way of looking, or this new hinge in my looking, outside the museum: when my sister dragged me camping, for instance, I was typically unmoved by "unspoiled" mountain views; after the glass flowers, I would see cracks in the roc ...more | |
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| I did not like this very much, but I learned a lot in the various dissatisfied ways it proceeds, the chances it takes or the frustrated prickliness it exudes (RC clearly continues to not GAF). Outline Trilogy is for me. Here, amid the digressive flow ...more | |
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| "In the novel there was no possibility of love. In the novel there was no possibility of forgiveness. My story had become, in my mind, the only story there was." ...more | |
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| "At first, Roy and Mandy ended their story here, with this ambiguous thrill." ...more | |
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| "The writing here has been a continuous, often maddening, effort to approach the intensities of the ordinary through a close ethnographic attention to pressure points and forms of attention and attachment. Ordinary Affects is written as an assemblage ...more | |
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| "Thinking perhaps she should camp beyond the village, avoid all these people who filled her head with their concerns, she bent her head to the cup—and, with her first sip, into her mouth swam a fish, and another finned dreamily in the shadowed overha ...more | |
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At least 25 years since I read this last. I think about the first line every day, since Kawabata's kanji calligraphy of it hangs in my kitchen. So much to learn, here. "It did not occur to Shimamura that it was improper to stare at the girl so long an ...more |
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| "In the way of animal people, she did not speak with her mouth, instead using a language that all living things could understand. It blossomed in Ellie's head like a dream, a series of thoughts she did not consciously control." ...more | |
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“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― My Abandonment
― My Abandonment
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