Christine Schutt Quotes

• A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.

  Christine Schutt

  Believe, Blessed, Character

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• I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.

  Christine Schutt

  Bed, Chance, Lovers

  Christine Schutt (2012). “Prosperous Friends”, p.164, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.

  Christine Schutt

  Hurt, Broken, Seductive

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• A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.

  Christine Schutt

  Book, Apology, Sublime

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