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\"\"<\/a>I have been reading Richard Holmes\u2019s Footsteps<\/a><\/em>. If you’re ever sleepless on a sleeper train at two o\u2019clock in the morning crossing southern Illinois (or shunning breakfast conversation in the diner six hours later), I recommend it. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Saunders\u2019s masterful short story \u201cCommcomm<\/a>\u201d in The New Yorker<\/em>. An acidic workplace satire that somehow free-falls into a Christian redemption myth. Plus, it features one of fiction\u2019s most memorable headlines: MURDERED BEAVERS SPEAK OF AIR FORCE CRUELTY<\/small>. \u2014Kate Waldman<\/strong><\/p>\n

I reread Mrs. Dalloway<\/a><\/em> last Sunday. Kept coming back to parts of it all week, underlying here, circling there. This line sticks out to me today: \u201cFor in marriage a little license, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house …\u201d \u2014Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n

After seeing a selection of Stones<\/a><\/em>, the late-fifties lithographic collaboration between Larry Rivers and Frank O\u2019Hara, in a sneak preview of M<\/small>oMA<\/small>\u2019s new \u201cAbstract Expressionist New York\u201d exhibition, I\u2019ve been perusing my much-thumbed copy of O\u2019Hara\u2019s Collected Poems<\/a><\/em> and the wonderful In Memory of My Feelings<\/a><\/em>, a collection of poem-paintings (originally created in 1967) that pairs O\u2019Hara\u2019s verse with works of art by more than two dozen of his contemporaries. O\u2019Hara worked as a staff member and curator at the Museum of Modern Art during much of the fifties and early sixties, when many of the works in this show were being created. It\u2019s perfect that his art is there among them. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

In lower moments, I have also been relishing David Rakoff\u2019s essay collection Half Empty<\/a><\/em>. Tough, suave, dry, and very funny. \u2014L. S. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This week, two articles have been helping me think through the dreary and troubling sameness at the core of today\u2019s \u201cdiverse,\u201d \u201cmulticultural\u201d literary community: Tim Parks\u2019s cogent piece<\/a> in The New York Review of Books<\/em> and Evert Cilliers\u2019s flawed but stimulating polemic<\/a> at 3quarksdaily. \u2014Mark de Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n

I revisited Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World<\/a><\/em>, which explores the repercussions of pain’s inexpressibility. It dredged up memories of emergency-room visits past, when the doctor entreats you to describe your pain on a scale of one to ten. “A three?” I would say, unconvincingly. As Scarry points out, pain (sadly) can only be expressed by its agents\u2014 the hammer, the burning flame, the wrenching wrench. \u2014Alexandra Zukerman<\/strong><\/p>\n

My friend gave me When You Reach Me<\/em><\/a> because the main character and I have the same first name, but that’s by no means the only reason to read this excellent novel. Sure, it’s a children\u2019s book, but its themes\u2014the fumbling processes by which we attempt to assert independence; the challenges of expressing affection; that moment when you begin to understand how things work\u2014remain resonant. Bonus: It’s also about time travel, and the chapters are very short\u2014perfect for brief subway rides and five-minute waits. \u2014Miranda Popkey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hurry! The Naipauls are coming to dinner<\/a>. \u2014David Wallace-Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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