September 2010
9 posts
esquared asked: your mission, to answer some proust questionnaires, miss girl, should you accept it ...
Where would you like to live?
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Who are...
Where would you like to live?
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Who are...
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help!
i just read the first 30 pages of franzen’s freedom and realized that i have read them before. where has this section been published previously? it is driving me crazy. anyone?
edit: it was in the new yorker last year. thanks, ryan.
hmm...
do i smell a book jumping the shark? oprah just picked jonathan franzen’s freedom as her final book club selection.
i now feel dirty for having one in my possession.
“it was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and...”
– lorrie moore, a gate at the stairs.
pro-tip
in a bind, a hardcover copy of infinite jest can be used as a free weight. i used mine to do side pulls yesterday and i’m even a little sore.
“then he leaned toward me and whispered, “i can see you don’t join...”
– lorrie moore, a gate at the stairs. i’m on page 210 and the plot just took a turn in the least expected direction.