“Sometimes I’m astounded by the absence of sentimentality in other people. How can you not become attached to the poignant scraps that flow through life?”
Nicholson Baker, Paris Review - The Art of Fiction, No. 212
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“Sometimes I’m astounded by the absence of sentimentality in other people. How can you not become attached to the poignant scraps that flow through life?”
Nicholson Baker, Paris Review - The Art of Fiction, No. 212
I love Baker’s writing, and he hasn’t made it easy.