I just wrote what I think might be the last sentence of the taxidermy book, at least in this version I’m about to send to my editor:
“We are not animals, we are given them.”
It felt righter two minutes ago.

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Here’s another book I want, seen in a well placed ad in the New York Review of Books. Why (and not, please, whether) we care about literary characters is a subject I’m committed enough to to want a read a whole book that finds an answer.
Would you believe it’s $60.00 through Johns Hopkins Press’s site? [...]

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Is your community participating in The Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts “to revitalize the role of literature in American popular culture and bring the transformative power of literature into the lives of its citizens.” Lincoln, Neb., doesn’t seem to be, though we also have One Book, One Lincoln going [...]

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