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The coolest thing about the park is the gentle social engineering of the furniture arrangements.
Each piece of bolted-down seating offers a unique opportunity for engagement.
All last month, I sat in one of those chairs and waited to see if anything interesting happened.
Nothing did, except the books.
The original version is usually better.
The spy-thriller chapter is about harboring a terrifying secret.
The romance-novel chapter is about sayingI love you.
In grad school, Machado meets a charismatic blonde waif and the two fall in love.
There are chapters that are one sentence long.
Its like your inner monologue while watching Al Pacino inThe Devils Advocate: Ha!
She writes the way I wish I were capable of feeling!
Jane and Jonathan Gordon are his parents.
One is a feminist author, the other a shrink who specializes in drawing out reticent boys and men.
The book is almost preposterously courageous, and it succeeds.
(They live together and speak on the phone from their respective and thank God for that beds.)
Cosy up to a charmingcoming-of-age storyset in English academia andBOHEMIAN ROME?
Unearth the story of a1950S HOUSEWIFEwho is also yournew intellectual mascot?
Read Mary Gaitskills ensorcellingnovellaaboutME TOO?
Try alost novelby a Viennese woman born in 1893 if you like Ottessa Moshfegh?
Its about an alienated chick who worries that she isWORTHLESSandSTUPID.
Who among us cant relate!
