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What can be caught is the thrill of making something. In writing, for me, it occurs in the rare moments when I come to feel the words are reaching for a gulf of experience beyond them. A conjuration of the unsayable—a mysticism of fragments, an ecstasy of ideas.
Writing is an act of faith. Like all beloved acts.

The letters themselves are delightful and trenchant, though rarely attain the grandeur of the best in Habit of Being. But the editor’s notes are obnoxiously characterized by his own political sentiments as to diminish my appreciation of the book overall

Savoring both the prose and the ways Matar weaves together the intimate and personal, with global and historical narratives