I think that different pleasures work for different readers – a friend of mine wont read anything thats not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but Im a sucker for humor and strangeness. – Karen Russell
People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie… you know, we didnt always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day. – Faith Evans
Only the use of footnotes enables historians to make their texts not monologues but conversations, in which modern scholars, their predecessors, and their subjects all take part. – Anthony Grafton (b.1950), The Footnote: A Curious History, “Epilogue: Some Concl