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E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again.

Her mother likes to say that novels have ruined Amelia for real men.

W-MT: There was a book I read about in the New York Times Book Review. It had a red cover, maybe? A.J.: Yeah, that sounds familiar. [Translation: That is excessively vague. Author, title, description of the plot—these are more useful locators. That the cover might have been red and that it was in the New York Times Book Review helps me far less than you might think.] Anything else you remember about it? [Use your words.]

Janine smiles. "Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.

The one real fight they'd ever had was over David Foster Wallace.

I think she must have been terribly blue. I think she must have had troubles in her life." "Do you ever get blue?" "Yes, everyone gets blue. But I don't think I could ever get melancholy like that, because I have you.

This is the most violent poetry game I've ever played,' Marx said.

Sadie the gamer found this scene sexist and strange.

Maybe I'll even become a nun and swear off boys forever." Scarlet turned to study me. "No. Your face wouldn't be good in a habit.

On the third day, he brought a library copy of the novel Galatea 2.2, which he had recently enjoyed.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture, by Harold Goldberg;

Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.

I hate book parties," A.J. says. "But you run the bookstore," Lambiase says. "It's a problem," A.J. admits.

What's hanafuda?" Sam asked. "Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature

Los Angeles, he decided, was a profoundly stupid city, and he felt a palpable, if irrational, longing for all things Massachusetts.

Weren't you even curious what it was? There's a world of people and things, if you can manage to stop being a misanthrope for a second.

Friends, Romans, countrymen,' Marx said, 'calm down.

when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II. Gently

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece

W-MT: There was a book I read about in the New York Times Book Review. It had a red cover, maybe? A.J.: Yeah, that sounds familiar. [Translation: That is excessively vague. Author, title, description of the plot—these are more useful locators. That the cover might have been red and that it was in the New York Times Book Review helps me far less than you might think.] Anything else you remember about it? [Use your words.] A.J.

He's got one thick book. He's in the middle of Infinite Jest. You ever heard of it?

she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.

Island used to offer free gift wrap at Christmas, and he figures that diaper changing and gift-wrapping must be related proficiencies.