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“Writing was like that. Words were sticks and stones, the narrative was a symmetrical edifice, and if it was good it was golden.”
― Paul Theroux, Burma Sahib

“amanuensis.”
― J.T. Ellison, A Very Bad Thing

“in particular, the extraordinary set of American books published in 1919 and 1920: James Branch Cabell’s sex-steeped Jurgen, Carl Sandburg’s gritty Smoke and Steel poems, Sherwood Anderson’s psychological portraits in Winesburg,”
― Deborah Cohen, Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

“was as the poet Ilyas Farhat described: “I head west, chasing after a livelihood while it is heading east…And I swear, had I headed east, that livelihood would have been heading west.”
― Marwan Hisham, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War