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... "it's hardly clear what good any novel can do for the poor, displaced people now picking their way through ... rubble." E. Frank, Stranger than Fiction, 2024, p. 303
This world, where a chicken could run without a head, where there was milk in the morning and frogs he could get to dance by holding their front feet—this world still preoccupied him.
All this time David was being clasped by strong warm hands. He didn't feel
the books were never meant to balance
I live in a house of chartered accountants, so I really felt the leaders of the minor parties were talking to me. Over the course of TVNZ's multiparty debate (link), which I didn't stay (I get enough of it at home), apart from jumping into the
now some words from Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff's new book ...
... before I lend it to M. to read:
Toufic has a new book out, by the way, Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You, which DeWitt was going to order for you on Amazon ... While writing (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film and