Read, then partially listened to, an interview (dated 30th may 2025) in the New York Times recently with Kathryn Schulz, a staff writer with The New Yorker and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize . She’s interviewed by Ezra Klein about her 2022 book, ‘Lost & Found’. Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s beloved father died,…
Category: book quotes
All their information was fifth-hand….
[Joan Didion: from ‘South and West’ (pg 34)] “You-all ought to come visit with us,” a third woman said. They were all young women, the oldest among them perhaps thirty. “I’d play organ for you.” “We’ll never get up there,” the first woman said. “I never been anyplace I wanted to go.” (and, a couple…
… indiscriminately distributed
‘But Johnny Topo now had other customers and was asking if they wanted the sweet biscuits or the salty ones in exactly the tones he had put those questions to Latika and Gouri. Latika turned away, disappointed that his voice was so indiscriminately distributed. Her discontent returned and she wished again that her tea were…