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Five Reasons I Did Not Make It Past Page 35 (Melissa Bank - The Wonder Spot)
Page 1: “She turned to Jack now and said, ‘Is your jacket small?’ If it was, I didn’t see it, but my mother had already worked herself into what she called a tizzy. ‘How … more →
Idle Trade
Five Reasons I Did Not Make It Past Page 35 (Melissa Bank - The Wonder Spot)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: Page 1: “She turned to Jack now and said, ‘Is your jacket small?’ If it was, I did … more →
Not Stale Yet (Paul Auster - City of Glass)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: Experimental novels fail more often as novels than as experiments. When one succeeds, then, it … more →
Uncommon Grace (The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: I devour love stories and have no particular interest in the literature of war; therefore my standar … more →
Gone Too Soon (Michael Donaghy -- Dances Learned Last Night)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: It is a great blessing and a mild curse that there is far more worth reading than any of us will eve … more →
Meditations and Brief Thrills (Alice Walker - Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: It’s exciting to see the giants updating their output. Salman Rushdie has a new terrorism-cent … more →
The Book Itself (Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: If David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest endures as it deserves to, future literary historians … more →
Reading About Everything
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: They don’t write Books About Everything like they used to. I came of age puzzling through Gode … more →
Getting To The Point (Best Music Writing 2006)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: Writing about music is often molded by that central tension in art criticism: what matters about mus … more →
Looking Back (Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays)
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Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: If Joan Didion’s nonfiction overshadows her 1970 novel Play It As It Lays, a nation interested … more →
Hope for an Era (David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men)
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: When a deathbed transcript is punctuated with startling point-of-view devices, and when a third of t … more →
Semifiction (Dry - Augusten Burroughs)
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Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: I’m no sucker. I know that nonfiction is not always literal fact. A stream of controversies an … more →
Making Up the Rules
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Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: I came to own The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 the same way I come to own so many other bo … more →
On Mary Oliver
Nate Meyvis wrote 2 years ago: I’ve spent a few months now delighting in Mary Oliver’s poetry, and I have a proposal. F … more →
