Word: alongism
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Capasso—who led the project along with Yu—called his work “beam engineering...
...sundown light” he had just described “chameleoning” away and captures the feeling with the down-to-earth rhythms of a southern spiritual: “No one is able to describe this gold to bronze to charcoal, no one. / So move along, boy, just move along.” He confounds the problem of understanding life with the problem of writing about it—its subject matter is too complex and ever-shifting for the human abilities to capture.Wright’s attempt to understand life through words draws...
...fiber. While they do their best to push the boundaries of their young existence, Thurber’s formulaic characters don’t have much to grow out of.Art Bechstein (Jon Foster) comes to his fabled summer a little late. Fresh-faced, clean-shaven, and forever dressed somewhere along the spectrum of white shirt/jeans to blue shirt/chinos, Art is a recently graduated economics major planning to work in finance in the fall. He needs adventure, and soon—lest his life become as boring as he has set it up to be. Judging from his blank stare throughout...
...rats copulate. For his second book, 2005’s “Canaan’s Tongue,” he did his publicity tour by raft down the Mississippi in a (failed) attempt to get people to notice him. New York Times writer David Carr even tagged along for a stretch, and the book couldn’t sell 3,000 copies...
Lots of things about the novel do work. Wray deposits moments of exposition at key points in his apparent madcap narrative, showing the careful planning and loving consideration of a first-rate writing talent. His prose flies along with the unstoppable force of a subway train, but he can still make me pause and wring my heart out over poor Lowboy...