Striding through the airport this morning, Destiny notes the typical presence of newspapers—Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today—held aloft by focused readers in pin-stripes and gray flannel, wing-tips and tasseled loafers. Destiny marches on, aware that the rustle of thin paper is growing louder--flapping, cawing, squawking. She realizes suddenly these are not newspapers … Continue reading Paper Birds
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Book Review: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
In the beginning of The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, I found the book a bit off-putting. The author drops the reader into the middle of a scene with no hand holds or explanations. Our protagonist is Lila Mae Watson, an elevator inspector in an unnamed city with lots of big buildings. But Whitehead doesn’t introduce us to … Continue reading Book Review: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead