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… threatens the printed word. It grows out of short-term commercialism and the attempt by the federal government to … of fiction. Most nonfiction books are assured a built-in audience based on subject, and the writer is concerned with … very little when you consider even a $5000 advance. This is also where and when the overworked and much-maligned “rep,” …

… country is unavoidable, instructions on the department’s website recommend drafting a will before departure. Several … forty miles from Kabul, just as there were Taliban-run checkpoints in the province of Bamiyan, traditionally considered … country. Out of eight uncles on his father’s side, five had died in the war. Among his mother’s brothers, one has …

… all the pseudo-literary embellishments—just seemed toy-like compared to his work. Maybe I was expecting from Jones some … workshop and watching him walk down the side of the road in complete anonymity. The people who passed him had no idea … Jones the man as well as the people in his fiction. There’s also something calm, true, and unforced. Of course, it’s …

… uses that context in order to make the event in question comprehensible, to explicate or reconstruct its sense, its … Songs, moreover, are conceived of not primarily as melodies but as chord progressions or “forms.” Any particular … practice, so did modern jazz exemplify, however unselfconsciously, an elevated and highly nuanced understanding …

… was usually the century of greatest development, it is also the one receiving the fullest exposition. This sounds like the most commonsensical of approaches. But when one realizes that … the Euston Station screen was “viciously demolished” (p. 226); or he speaks of the “crazy tower” on the Halles at …