May 14, 2025
- The many faces of the hero’s journey
- George Saunders responds to Trump’s firing of Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden
- Sneering in The White Lotu
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“Like an early 19th-century poet, when I have melancholy moments and feel the world is too much for us and that late and soon we lay waste to our powers in getting and spending, I’m forced to pause and reflect upon my experiences with the dead and the hold they exert on our lives.”
“He is almost beautiful—running with the San Gabriels over one shoulder, the rise of the Hollywood Freeway as it arcs above the Pasadena Freeway over the other.”
“Sunday, ten thirty a.m. The city was still half-asleep. The clean, quiet streets gleamed in the bluish light.”