“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Shel Silverstein
“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
Georges Simenon
"She was stretching her legs without paying any attention to what was happening and I noticed her high pointed heels."
Mona Simpson
"We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories."
Michael Sims
"If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire."
Nikhil Pal Singh
"King who has become part of a mythic nationalist discourse that claims his antiracist imperatives as its own."
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jon Wiener
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Charles Yu
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Genres
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More