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Don Wallace
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Progress Report: The Dream Merchant by Fred Waitzkin
I'm now reading a most amazing book: The Dream Merchant by Fred Waitzkin. Halfway through I believe that Fred, who is a friend, has a chance to knock one out of the park. It's the opposite of the fancydancing stuff we tend to see, but not stuck in a retro rut either. The protagonist is A Great Gatsby of the new scam/con/score world we live in...but he's gone to seed, as observed by his own Nick Ca
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One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game
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2003
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Hot Water
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1991
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2 editions
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Extraordinary A master class in point of view, misdirection, authorial and psychological honesty, scarifying yet bleakly comic—I could go on. But the thing that stands out, stays, is empathy. In all the horror, gives each character their moment. But ...more |
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...literate to un-learn their letters." Are we there yet? (A speech by a wandering Soviet functionary bringing the true gospel to the hinterlands in the 1920s)
“With us everything is decided by the majority. And, since nearly everyone is illiterate, the day will come for the illiterate to decree that the literate should unlearn their letters—in the name of universal equality. All”
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We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
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“Possession is the motivation that has hang up / the god-damn nation.”
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“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would remember him, and love him. But he didn't believe they would. From childhood memories he knew how strange and sad it is after a long absence to see a familiar place again, for these unmoving objects have no memory and do not recognize the stirrings of a stranger's heart.”
― The Fierce and Beautiful World
― The Fierce and Beautiful World
“There was no violence; there were no demonstrations; simply, the everyday world was running down.”
― Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
― Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy
“With us everything is decided by the majority. And, since nearly everyone is illiterate, the day will come for the illiterate to decree that the literate should unlearn their letters—in the name of universal equality. All”
― Chevengur
― Chevengur