Sometimes these days Dean felt like picking up the phone and calling his buddy Michael Jordan and chortling with him over how he’d played Continental Dairy Industries off against National Milk, but of...
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.
Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place. Felicity was her last chance to enjoy this, and so she did, day after...
Like a man who has jumped off a diving board, but then, through force of will, lowers himself inch by inch into the pool.
Said, looking for a job on Broadway.
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to...
And that's how the tournament started, the Million Dollar World Series of Monopoly......Jess and Pete thought alike -- like city boys, my father would have said, looking for the payoff in a situation...
And the thick, sugary covering of the snow...
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
Even in Minnesota, where the winter was a big topic of conversation and a permanent occasion for people’s heroic self-regard, it was only winter on the highway a few hours out of the year. The rest of...
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