September 2010
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“Narrative, after all, it perhaps the most powerful antidote we have in the face of what at first appears to be insurmountable odds. If this weren’t true, the Incredible Hulk never would have become so popular with so many powerless children, the novels of Orhan Pamuk would not be publicly excoriated yet covertly embraced in his native land,and The Catcher in the Rye would not stand, as it sill does today, as a timeless, ageless call into the wild abyss.”
—Alice Sebold’s Introduction to America’s Best Short Stories 2009 (via quote-book)
