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Callahan described Ellison’s work as a "fragment" that needed to be edited. During the editing process for this book, some of the author’s notes were given "more weight and heft" to create the narrative of the story, Callahan said...
...most astute Big China Book authors, like Jacques, I often find myself wondering if the place they are describing can really be the same one that I regularly visit and teach and write about for a living. For the China I know is one where complex regional divides fragment the population and the views of many people don't fit into either the dissident or loyalist category. It's a country with multistranded traditions, not just a single Confucian one. And it's a country whose long history has been marked by many discontinuities, from the mix of traditions...
...Original of Laura is a fragment, or a collection of fragments--"the novel was probably half or one-third 'written' in the strictly technical sense," Dmitri says. It is not a series of consecutive chapters. Nabokov liked to attack his subjects on multiple fronts, from all directions, an approach facilitated by his use of index cards. The book begins at a party attended by a woman named Flora. Her husband is not present, and she slips away to an absentminded tryst with a lover, which Nabokov renders delicately but unsentimentally: "That first surrender of hers was a little sudden...
...chance to vote on what they would save during a showdown between five of the university's professors, each of whom passionately defended an item dear to their hearts: a mass-produced gouache painting of Mt. Vesuvius, a marsupial mole preserved in formaldehyde, a 1960s toy car, an ancient fragment of painted wall plaster from what is now a London suburb and a collection of Victorian-era death masks. One professor put it best: "These objects don't have an intrinsic value." But each has an interesting back-story. The toy car, for example, belonged to a child who suffered...
...come to see Paul Farmer [the subject of his earlier book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains”] who had an apartment there. Deo told the outlines of his story to my wife, and as we were driving away, my wife told me a fragment of the story that he told her, and it sat in the back of my mind for several years.I was drawn to him, partly. He’s really charming, and there’s an ineffable quality to him—a straight warmth and enthusiasm. And there was a sense of someone...