Bill is a writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound.
Because I was a Wheelwright-and, therefore, a New England snob-I'd assumed that Phoenix was largely composed of Mormons and Baptists and Republicans;
At first it had slashed up the little silk pockets of her purse. Then she found part of an old thermometer container that slipped over the head of the scalpel, capping it like a fountain pen. It was t...
At Owen Meany’s burial, one of Owen’s Sunday school classmates remembers how easy he was to lift up. He was so light—he weighed nothing at all! How could he have been so light? Because God already had...
As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed sh...
As a self-described Guadalupe girl, Lupe was sensitive to Guadalupe being overshadowed by the Mary Monster. Lupe not only meant that Mary was the most dominant of the Catholic Church’s stable of virgi...
Anyone can be sentimental about the Nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer.
And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.
Amy Martin (ladysky) and Daniel Baciagalupo had a month to spend on Charlotte Turner's island in Georgian Bay; it was their wilderness way of getting to know each other before their life together in T...
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct of philanthropy
One of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had...
Not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.
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Тренер Боб знал это с самого начала: ты должен стать одержимым и не растерять одержимости. Ты должен и дальше проходить мимо открытых окон.
То, как устроен этот мир, не может служить основанием для слепого цинизма или незрелого отчаяния; миром — так верили они, Айова Боб и мой отец, — двигает, как бы скверно это у него ни получалось, стра...
Когда неожиданно умирает любимый человек, ты теряешь его не сразу. Это происходит постепенно, шаг за шагом, на протяжении долгого времени, — так перестают приходить письма, — вот улетучился знакомый з...
¿No estoy aquí, que soy tu madre?
Though there was nothing wrong with Garp’s hands – they just seemed to be clumsy at masturbation. ‘Garp!
Pitch. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president’s particular agenda—and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.