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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jonathan Lethem's 10th novel, 'The Blot,' is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
- Pleases
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.
- Donald Trump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Trump presidency feels as if we've crawled between the covers of a really crummy book.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
- Exchanging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: 'Look at us! Our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual!'
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.
- Grammatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.
- Constitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
- Nov 07, 2020