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