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Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019
by James Wood
June 16, 2020 - June 19, 2020 (read/essay-collections/literary-criticism)

Wood, J. (2020). Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 528 pages. Hardcover. 9780374261160

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p.454
cerement »
(noun) a shroud for the dead / (noun) cerecloth
p.318
limpid »
(adjective) marked by transparency; pellucid / (a…
p.317
emollient »
(adjective) making soft or supple / (adjective) s…
p.304
locution »
(noun) a particular form of expression or a pecul…
p.297
elegiac »
relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
p.378
an elastic solitude stretching into the desert
So Mleville slapped at God. He could not help pla…
p.323
life is first fear, then boredom
Or perhaps this is just my fear projected onto hi…
p.292
is indeed how life is lived
[...] When I left this country 18 years ago, I di…
p.270
going home
had​ a piano teacher who used to talk about the m…
p.110
caress simultaneously both halves of the monarchy
[...] Roth's details and images are often not pri…

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