Thanksgiving

Although I was able to resist an "extra" large pumpkin pie this past weekend, it's never too early to enjoy an American Thanksgiving.

Happy to you, yours, and everyone who gobbles!

how successful the book had become

"Blake wondered what exactly it was that everyone had done to this author. He doesn't doubt people had don him wrong—he  just wonders exactly what it was. Had they ignored him his entire life? Had they shoved him against lockers, tripped him in the halls, offered high-fives with pushpins wedged between their fingers? Blake wished the man had been alive to know how successful the book had become, wished he could actually enjoy making people eat shit."

~~ from Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun by Jeff Chon

"a poetic love letter"

Another review of Auggie's Revenge awaits your attention.

art

 

Amazon reviews

Amazon has new reviews of Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day: "Kudera is a darn fine writer, worthy to be read on the level of the sentence."

fear and fascination

"Then he tried to persuade me to follow the 'natural way' and to refrain from what he regarded as a criminal act. We stayed there for a long time, huddled over a table in the Café Métropole, near the entrance. He couldn't bring himself to leave. I felt that his determination to make me change my mind was underpinned by a powerful emotion combining fear and fascination. Men found my desire to abort strangely enticing."

~~ from Happening by Annie Ernaux

consolidated soup

A judge blocked Penguin Random House's merger with Simon & Schuster.