Clare Snow’s Reviews > In the Land of Men: A Memoir > Status Update

"My preference was to not have to deal with people if I could help it."

"Our novels were now internal monologues - the dream world of the self."

"Power is also invisible when you have it. But you can't see anything straight if you're too close - you keep losing your perspective."

They didn't care in any way, shape or form. 30 years later, they still don't

So glad Miller skipped ahead chronologically:
David Foster Wallace: "She looks quite a bit more like Brent Musburger than I'm comfortable with."

I keep hoping Miller won't go all "he was my friend," and maybe she won't

"The week before Thanksgiving, I committed myself to review Infinite Jest for GQ. (By that point, somehow, and probably unwisely, I could review anything I wanted to review.)"

"What we didn't know was that power was the motivator."

"Everyone should always bring truffles with them all the time."

I guess it was too much to hope this was a funny story...

Kafka wrote in a letter 'I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?'

"The [book] reviewer's job is to evaluate the book on its own terms and to determine how well the book succeeds - or doesn't, as the case may be - within those terms."