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For writers...It's an incredible text on the craft of writing, with stories from all of my favorite "Best American" regulars: Dan Chaon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Michael Martone, Stuart Dybek, Russell Banks... the list goes on.
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“When I asked my shrink if I was a control freak, he finished saying “Absolutely” before I finished saying “freak.” I told him that I once worked with a woman who carried a remote control in her purse. Whenever she got worried or angry, she took it out and stroked it like a gerbil. My shrink said that if I keep comparing myself to severe neurotics, I’ll think that anything is permissible.”
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“Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.”
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“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”
― Interpreter Of Maladies
― Interpreter Of Maladies
Monica’s 2025 Year in Books
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