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- Nov 07, 2020
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
- Doses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
- Embrace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020