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Evan Roskos

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Evan Roskos was born and raised in New Jersey, a state often maligned for its air and politics but rightly praised for its produce. One of Narrative’s Best New Writers, Evan’s fiction has appeared in Granta’s New Voices online feature, as well as in Story Quarterly, The Hummingbird Review, and BestFiction. He earned an MFA from Rutgers University - Newark and teaches literature and writing courses for Rowan University and Rutgers - Camden. His debut novel is Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets.

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Radiohead’s OK Computer

The great leap forward. Some people prefer The Bends; some OK Computer; some Kid A. But why the need to choose? “In an interstellar blaaaast, I am back to save the universe.” Are we meant to take this as a jubilant expression or one of cynicism? In fact, this album’s overall mood shifts between both and is not the gloomy, sour rock album it’s been portrayed as (though Yorke and the documentary Mee Read more of this blog post »

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“When I hug trees, the bark marks my cheek and reminds me I'm alive. Or that my nervous system is still intact. The trees breathe all the time and no one really notices. They take in all the air we choke on. They live and die in silence. So I hug them. Someone should.”
― Evan Roskos, Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

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“I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is.”
― Evan Roskos, Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

tags: honesty, life

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“I answer that I cannot answer.”
― Evan Roskos, Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

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Evan’s Quotes

“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
― Don DeLillo

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“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: 1985, california, lifestyle, society

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“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: death

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“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

tags: light

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