Noir Is All About Bad Decisions: The Millions Interviews William Boyle
You have the dream of the thing, which turns out to be totally misguided, and then you have to deal with the blowback, which is very real.
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The Millions Top 10
To Rip It Up and Start Again: Jeff Jackson’s ‘Destroy All Monsters’
Is this the dormant spirit of rock and roll, come to wreak vengeance on its halfhearted acolytes for their lack of faith?
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A Mysterious Respect for Lies: On Éric Vuillard’s ‘Order of the Day’
Order of the Day is a stark examination of the price of silence and the cost of sticking to the rules to keep the peace.
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Trump’s Got Mail: About Those Great Love Letters from Kim Jong Un
The letters to my father represented sorrow, hope, and, probably saddest of all, a willingness to suspend disbelief. They continued coming for years.
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Facts That Turn Out to Be Fiction: Ann Cummins and Sarah Stone on Writing, Landscape, and Family
In regular life, I fall prey to lying—not intentionally, but I instinctively translate events into stories that give meaning to my experience.
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Childlike Wonder, Adult Wisdom: Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, Donald Hall, and Aretha Franklin
Going over 80 with Le Guin is wondrous. Reincarnation would be a fine belief to have, but short of that, thank goodness Le Guin’s books are immortal.
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Understanding My Father’s Suicide through ‘The Journals of Spalding Gray’
I realized that this is the monster in a box left behind by the suicide of a parent: We worry that the stories they write are also coded into our DNA.
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