whose death on 9/11 seems to cinch the narrator’s redemption in the novel’s bathetic conclusion
the new heroines of contemporary fiction possess a kind of anhedonic equanimity, more numb than overwhelmed
When I became aware that you had upbraided Obama for fomenting class warfare, I couldn’t even imagine what set you off. It seemed comical. Here’s a president who brought Wall Street allies into his administration from the get-go.
There was a frenzy of elaborate and expensive tax-dodging legerdemain on all sides, a symphonic interplay of shell companies and shifted debt
The website’s images call to mind a bucolic existence, where children play on green grass and dads tend the barbeque and everyone has something to smile about.
