“How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice.” BookWould BePastAttentionEnemyStudyHealthySickDepthWorthyAnalysisUnconsciousPriestsThrillingJarsForecastsNot WorthyFetusConsolingOld Books Author:Edmund White
“Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation.” WayBookHardStoriesFatherNationsProcessWrittenIsraelTalesMemoirWarmthHeroicResentmentFoundersConsolationIsraeliGrippingOdysseyHard Truths Author:Edmund White
“The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.” ImportantBookImportant ThingsStrangerIntimate Book:The Beautiful Room is Empty Source: The Beautiful Room is Empty
“What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.” BookBeautifulImaginationViewsSeriousCriticismReputationMusingsPosthumous Book:The Burning Library: Essays Source: The Burning Library: Essays
“I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit...” ThinkingBookPoetryLiteraturePerfectCryFitEmptyFilledLandscapeNicheEcologicalPerfect Fit Author:Edmund White
“In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.” ThinkingMenBookBoysCasesNovelTeacherNeededGayAdultsExperienceEnjoyedEtcComing OutBetrayCreepy Author:Edmund White
