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Some Heat
Miranda July
‘No one knows why ripping up a name makes a person call – science can’t explain it. Erasing the name also works.’
Hard Core
Gabe Hudson
‘My buddy Meat’s the one who showed me the true joy of handling the M203.’
Gabe Hudson in Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2.
Don’t Fall in Love
Mohsin Hamid
‘She does not stare at you, but when your eyes meet, she does not look away.’
Mate
Kate Grenville
‘He’d bought the Akubra and the elastic-sided boots but anyone could see he was a city bugger.’
The Womanizer
Richard Ford
‘Austin turned up the tiny street – rue Sarrazin – at the head of which he hoped he would come to a larger one, one he knew, rue de Vaugirard, possibly, which he could take all the way to Josephine Belliard's apartment by the Luxembourg Gardens.’
October, 1948
Kazuo Ishiguro
‘I remember looking around me with approval that first night, and today, for all the changes which have transformed the world around it, Mrs Kawakamu's remains as pleasing as ever.’
How Am I Supposed to Talk to You | New Voices
Lauren Holmes
‘Okay don’t sell yourself,’ said my mom, ‘sell the American dream.’
