Willed and shrunken
DeLillo’s aim in Falling Man, says Adam Kirsch, “is almost that of a lyric poet — not so much to tell a story as to evoke a state of mind.”
DeLillo’s aim in Falling Man, says Adam Kirsch, “is almost that of a lyric poet — not so much to tell a story as to evoke a state of mind.”
Alice Tremlow reflects on the bandwidth of art books in an Internet culture.
Nelly Reifler just wanted documents authenticated, but the rabbi-turned-notary looked at her signature and pronounced her a reincarnation of Eve.
Colin Channer’s The Girl With the Golden Shoes centers on a girl who becomes an object of suspicion and gets kicked out of her fishing village after teaching herself to read. “She’d not been led to reading by a great ambition — that was something reading had produced. But this wasn’t easy to explain.” Setting out for the city with . . .
“Never waste words. A sentence worth writing is worth publishing twice.”