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Take Nick Hornby leave the cannolli

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Jorge Costales

There can be a certain melancholy to discovering writers whose work you love. Are they dead or in their prime? Sometimes dead is better, like when there’s an accessible body of work. I love Tom Wolfe, but after I found … Continue reading →

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To suffer the pain of what is hidden

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Jorge Costales

In the middle of reading Nick Hornby’s clever book about books, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, I came across an amazing letter from an unexpected motivational speaker, Anton Chekhov. Below are portions of Chekhov’s letter, written in 1886, to his younger … Continue reading →

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