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Matthew Gallaway
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In Taipei, a soon-to-publish novel by Tao Lin, we follow a young writer "Paul" (late twenties) through a short period of his life in which he's trying to negotiate the demands of his art, his family, his girlfriends, and his past. In all of these spheres -- except for possibly his art -- he's often plagued by a sense of severe alienation, detachment, and malaise that leaves him ambivalent abou... read more »
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The Metropolis Case
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Coming and Crying
by Melissa Gira Grant (Goodreads Author) , Meaghan O'Connell (Goodreads Author) , Stephen Elliott — published 2010 — 3 editions |
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"A tenor, a soprano, a lawyer, 1860s Paris, and post-9/11 New York City—all share a connection to the tragic opera Tristan and Isolde in The Metropolis Case. Gallaway shares some music that inspired his prose." ...More
"A tenor, a soprano, a lawyer, 1860s Paris, and post-9/11 New York City—all share a connection to the tragic opera Tristan and Isolde in The Metropolis Case. Gallaway shares some music that inspired his prose." ...More
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| Underneath Tao Lin's sometimes awkward and sometimes hilarious detachment, he offers readers a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Beautiful prose, insightful observations -- highly recommend for anyone interested in what it means to say go...more | |
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| Super entertaining and extensively researched book about the rise and fall of two Hollywood legends who never had much good to say about each other. Highly recommended for anyone interested in old Hollywood. | |
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| This book is worth fifty stars alone for the opening essay by Robert Hass, which traces the evolution of Rilke from an artist who craves an understanding of the unknown space within him, to his comprehension that this space represents death, and fina...more | |
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| I read this book four times in a row. The premise is that the advent of Socratic rationalism did not lead to an enlightened society (at least outside of an intellectual elite) in ancient Greece, but somewhat disastrously led to a popular/mainstream b...more | |
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
by James Davidson
read in November, 2012
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| Interesting book about the culinary and sexual tastes of ancient Greece and how they fell along lines of class. The writing aims to be more descriptive than analytical or philosophical. The author goes out of his way to insist that non-heterosexual a...more | |
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“No matter how hard life gets, we only get one chance, which is why we owe it to ourselves to make the best of it, for as long as we have.”
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case
“As much as we like to think we grieve for others, she said, it bears keeping in mind that we are also grieving for ourselves and, above all, what has inevitably passed us by.”
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case
“Except as often as Wagner preached that they were collectively engaged in the "music of the future," and no matter how much Lucien was inclined to believe this, there were moments when he, too, felt crushed by a despondency that went deeper than his problems in rehearsal; it was the difference, he knew, between understanding the power of waves and actually being battered in the ocean.”
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case
― Matthew Gallaway, The Metropolis Case
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