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“We need more fiction like Nors’s.”
“Cusk’s final affront to the novel is to disaggregate it into unreconciled elements without making any concession to cohesion.”
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“He doesn’t like looking back, especially at his own literary record.”
“Vance’s new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith .”
“That Cusk goes on writing is evidence that she cannot really envision the negation of self that she claims to desire.”
“Yet I would rather dislike Cusk’s voice than read a book—would it even be a book?—without a voice at all.”
“It obstinately intrudes, even in the books from which she has most arduously endeavored to exile it.”
“Wideman may even greet Languages with some ambivalence.”
“He may not need these essays, but we do.”
“In other interviews, Vance calls that lecture the single most impactful event during his time there.”
“Playing one-on-one with the Black tradition, Wideman recapitulated the lessons he’d learned from his criticism, recalibrated his approach to writing, rejuvenated his prose musically, and crystallized a new style that simultaneously embodied the tradition, renewed it, and moved it into the future.”
“Let the weird children come.” –Charlotte Wood on Dorthe Nors’s Range ( The New York Times Book Review ) “ Languages of Home is John Edgar Wideman’s first collection of essays, profiles, and creative nonfiction.”
“The authority of objects derives from their imperviousness—but too total an imperviousness precludes writing and action altogether.”
“In light of her dream of disintegrating the particularities of selfhood into the warm liquid of universality, it is no surprise that Cusk has invented a new sort of novel that is nearly unidentifiable as such.”