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The Autistic Brain The Autistic Brain: Thinking across the Spectrum
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The Year of Magical Thinking The Year of Magical Thinking
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Cooked Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
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And the Mountains Echoed And the Mountains Echoed
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The Elephant Vanishes The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
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Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book) Bring Up the Bodies (A John MacRae Book)
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The Pastures of Heaven (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) The Pastures of Heaven (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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Skin and Other Stories (Now in Speak!) Skin and Other Stories (Now in Speak!)
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Jill Owens: IMG Claire Messud: The Powells.com Interview
| 0 comments By Jill Owens

Interviews | May 16, 2013

Claire Messud Claire Messud: Another aspect for me was the whole question of the interior life. I think that's something that is absolutely universal. In Chekhov's "The Lady with the Little Dog," the protagonist -- who's had many affairs but who has for the first time fallen in love with his mistress -- reflects on the fact that what is most important to him, only he knows. It's completely secret, and nobody around him is aware of the things that matter to him most. Then he has the apprehension that this is true for everybody, so that all around him, he doesn't actually know what's most important to all the people he thinks he knows.

This is, to me, a book that is trying to articulate one person's interior life -- what goes on behind the scenes. Related to that is the question of... Continue

The Woman Upstairs The Woman Upstairs
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Michael Marder: IMG Powell's Q&A: Michael Marder
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Writers are better liars than other people: true or false? Why or why not?
I am a writer. Assume that I respond "true." I might be saying the truth, in which case, I disprove the very assertion I have affirmed. Or, I might be lying, in which case I seem to prove the point of this statement by my own behavior, but the actual state of things is that the assertion is false. You see what we philosophers deal with day-in, day-out! Continue

Plant-Thinking Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
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Samuel Sattin: IMG Nanny of the Corn
| 0 comments By Samuel Sattin

Guests | May 15, 2013

Every wicked edge of Jackie's demeanor was somehow mitigated by measured bits of wisdom and control. Her dog, for example, while a drooling psychotic, was contained by a series of terrifying commands, all of which instructed the beast to maim and/or kill, but only when she sanctioned it so. She was kind of like Ygritte on Game of Thrones, in retrospect, or the female version of that guy from The Beastmaster, and she seemed to view childhood as preparation for the hellish pain of adulthood as opposed to a precious time of innocence.

One night, on a particularly long stint of stay, she had her boyfriend over to the house... Continue

League of Somebodies League of Somebodies
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