Austin Dowell

“Tommy, though. Smart as hell, he could think himself out of any hole, but then would crawl back into it and sit there. It was like he chose the shit end of the stick, so nobody else would get it. A hard thing to watch.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can’t stop talking about them.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“An interesting question,” Olive said, “which I’d like to consider in these last few minutes, is why there’s been such interest in postapocalyptic literature over this past decade or so. I’ve had the tremendous good fortune of getting to travel a great deal in the service of Marienbad—”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility