Texas. What the hell are you doing?
Parents. You need to start getting excited that your child even WANTS to read Pulitzer Prize winning novelists. It’s obviously an indication of sophistication that you seem to lack.
Quoted: Kaleb Tierce, 25, is being investigated for allegedly distributing harmful material to a minor after the student selected Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy’s “Child of God” off the list and read it.
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George Saunders talking about Stuart Dybek’s “Hot Ice” which he read at the Chicago Public Library.
Quoted: I was sweating, my face was red, I kept putting the book down, going: This can’t be this good this can’t be this good. But it was, and to my credit, I saw it, and didn’t deny it. I felt I’d come to the edge of an unknown, superior continent, after lingering too long on the boat. And that afternoon changed my life.
[tags: books, George Saunders, field test, Stuart Dybek, thepugetnews]
