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• students reading

  Sep 3, 2009

  My students believe the story we’ve read about a woman giving birth in prison convicted of burning her best friend, her lover’s wife, and her children to ashes, from a neighborhood renowned for its social misfits, is more reality than fantasy that could easily happen in Thailand. ...

• treacly

  Jul 10, 2009

  Peter Ferry was one of Dave Eggers high school teachers and this book bears a strong family resemblance (even though they’re not related). ...

• ethereal

  Jun 23, 2009

  Our reader had first heard of John Wray a few years ago in a frivolous magazine profile of a group of writers who regularly shared a meal together and supported one another. ...

• zoomorphism

  Jun 2, 2009

  What organizes fiction is conflict—and only characers experience conflict, [so find] the dominating human conflict in your situation. ...

• imagination

  May 13, 2009

  Three scenes, therefore, where imagination wins over representation; three moments, three keys which become locks, but which no present-day director would think of leaving out. ...

• sentimentalizing comfort

  Apr 25, 2009

  The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. ...

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