Showing posts with label Simon & Schuster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simon & Schuster. Show all posts

 

"In the subject line I write: Urgent Matter. My heart accelerates. I type: Present resolution has not been found acceptable by both parties. I then revise: One of the parties has found the present resolution to be unacceptable. For your immediate action. Best, Noa. Another sip of water. Another drag. Send. That's it. It's sent. Done, over, behind me. Actually ahead of me. Shit. What have I done? How can I fall asleep when I'm waiting for a reply? And what if he never replies? What if he's asleep? And why am I like this?"

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Rosenfeld by Maya Kessler

 

"'We're not dating. Don't be disgusting,' Big Swiss said. 'I love you.'

'Okay,' Greta said. 

'Okay?'

'I love you, too, but you should ask yourself what you really want,' Greta said. 'I'm too old for this.'"

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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

 

"In the days and nights that followed, it was that image of him in the black glass of the window that haunted and warmed me. His arm extended across the sofa cushion, the cross of his leg revealing the stripe of his sock, his head turned over his shoulder, the gesture of his eyes casting down, like an old-fashioned stage actress looking bashfully at a bouquet."

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Vladimir by Julia May Jonas

 

"The question of how the world will end has been the subject of speculation and debate among poets and philosophers throughout history. Of course, now, thanks to science, we know the answer: it's fire. Definitely, fire. In about five billion years, the Sun will swell to its red giant phase, engulf the orbit of Mercury and perhaps Venus, and leave the Earth a charred, lifeless, magma-covered rock. Even this sterile smoldering remnant is likely fated to to eventually spiral into the Sun's outer layers and disperse its atoms in the churning atmosphere of the dying star."

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The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack

 

"Rebecca West: 'Since men don't love us nearly as much as we love them that leaves them with a lot more spare vitality to be wonderful with.'"

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The Power Notebooks by Katie Roiphe

"I had grown comfortable at the thought of my body as a public resource that I was responsible for keeping in trust. I had been charged with its maintenance and general upkeep, and on the strength of such a relationship had been able to develop a certain vague fondness for it, while also maintaining a pleasant distance. Don't ask me; I just work here, was my attitude. I can let the supervisors know when there's a problem and they tell me how to fix it." 
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

"...I had been reading Carl Jung, who, after World War II, long consumed by the question of what made people evil, or complicit in evil, settled on a single, elegant explanation. He believed that ostracizing any aspect of the human experience, however ugly, created a "shadow" of our rejected bits that we drag behind us. If we do not see that the shadow belongs to us, we project it onto others, both individually and as a culture. To face and own what most disturbs you about yourself, Jung believed, is the among the central moral tasks of being human."
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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

"If you're asleep...and someone close by utters your name, you might wake up...the brain, while reduced in awareness, is monitoring and making decisions about the contents of speech in your vicinity."

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Into the Gray Zone by Adrian Owen

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