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Arrival Gates
Rebecca Solnit
‘It was like trying to go back to before the earthquake, to before knowledge.’
Nudity
Norman Rush
‘I nursed a precocious rage at the stratagems society was employing to keep me from seeing naked women.’
Laparotomy
Alexandra Lucas Coelho
‘At forty, I think the world leads to the body. Besides, laid out on a stretcher, you are your only home’ .
Melinda Moustakis | First Sentence
Melinda Moustakis
‘We all would like to think that with one line, one brush, we could make a reader fall madly in love, and there are writers that elicit such a response with the appropriately gorgeous.’
Teenage Wastelands
Jim Ruland
‘It took me seven years of marriage to figure out that my wife is a hardcore Pearl Jam fan.’
Women’s Shadow in the American Western
Thirza Wakefield
‘The wild is no place for women—the film would seem to say.’
First Sentence: Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich
‘We live in these places out of necessity, lucky to have them out of the terrible explosion of humanity.’
In the Shadow of the Hospital
Tim Winton
‘All that yearning spilling down amid the treetops and roof ridges, a shadow I’d never properly considered before.’
Three Football Books
Clara Becker, Stuart Evers & Jethro Soutar
‘Football is a game; it’s not real life. But in a continent as illogical as Latin America, the lines blur.’
The Question of Fate
Catherine Lacey
‘The possibility that I’d unwittingly tapped into her fate and used it as fuel for a story sickened me.’
Laura Kasischke | First Sentence
Laura Kasischke
‘There really was a moth I found in a toolbox (not as musical or interesting as ‘strongbox’), alive, in the attic, in that box.’
