I’d brought my computer, but maybe I could actually just not turn it on, and the dreary growth of little obligations that overran my screen would just disappear; maybe the news, which—like a magic substance in a fairy tale—was producing perpetually increasing awfulness from rock-bottom bad, would just disappear.
~ Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck is My Duck: Stories (Ecco, September 25, 2018)
Notes:
- Photo from (and Don’t miss Article): Deborah Eisenberg, Chronicler of American Insanity (NY Times, September 27, 2018)
- Deborah Eisenberg’s book Your Duck is My Duck: Stories was selected as one of Dwight Garner’s top books of 2018 in Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018
Will come back to the article later. Most interesting indeed!
Can’t get much lower than rock-bottom bad…
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Exactly.
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Already went back. Dammit David. Now I have yet ANOTHER writer to add to my mile-long list!!
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Ha!
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Her look is haunting…and the article is very long, but something about her is compelling.
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It sure is…
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