December 2011
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“I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who...”
– David Foster Wallace, from an interview with Larry McCaffery for The Review of Contemporary Fiction, collected in Conversations with David Foster Wallace but also available online
He says this often in different words, sometimes dubbing “suffering” with “loneliness.” In...
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“So now [the days] were going to continue one after another like this, always the...”
– Madame Bovary, Flaubert, p. 54 of the beautiful Lydia Davis translation
Today is Flaubert’s birthday. I discovered this by chance after purchasing Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot at work, which inspired me to do some biographical digging on the great realist himself—this...
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