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Where are you from?

Third generation Japanese-American children awaiting the arrival of the next bus. Byron, California 1942. Photo:...

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Looks like Kid Blue’s on board.

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Characterizing Middle of Nowhere and similar films as “different” and “revolutionary” for their depiction of fleshed-out black female characters...

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[I am walking through our office's reception area carrying my sad desk salad with its accompanying tub of dressing perched atop. The tub falls. The lid is forced ajar. My dressing begins to slowly spill onto the floor.]

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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter,...
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This story, once rationed, offered a few times a year, now bursts through every phone call, including this one, which has nothing at all to do with Pauline. Time is compressing for the mother, she has a short distance left to go. She means to squeeze the past into a thing small enough to take with her.

NW, Zadie Smith

NW has the best, most intriguing, most interestingly written opening in any book I’ve read since Infinite Jest. It paints the world in such strong, brief strokes, and in that way, reminds me of the opening of Rear Window. And I am only 20 pages in and already, so many perfect sentences that just take my breath away.

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cleverbeast said: Have only read Zadie articles but want to read her books, feels like a kindred spirit
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