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“Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.”

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Christine Schutt

Christine Schutt is an American novelist born in 1948. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

“A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.”

Believe Character Christ Pleasure Novel Blessed Fearless Contentment Willingness Anarchy Translate Unseen Completion Prerequisites Justin

Author:Christine Schutt

“A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.”

Made Book Moments Wonder Strange Reader Letters Embrace Dear Familiar Thanks Apology Confession Sublime Simplest

Author:Christine Schutt

“I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.”

Philosophy Facts Might Wonder Missing Series Realization Provoking

Author:Simon Critchley

“A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.”

Men Would Be Fire Sacred Soldier Hindrance Sacred Fire

Book:Ivor Gurney: collected letters