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“... Read any interview​ with Lore Segal and she’ll tell you about her shortcomings:I seem to have a reluctance to make things happen.I’m not a grand creator of new characters.I keep rewriting everything 48 times.I don’t have the long breath required to think in terms of a novel.I’m bad at thinking about society ...”

“... a modern replica of a 19th-century bedside miscellany: a hodgepodge of personal anecdote, family lore, literary reflections, political comment, religious brooding, weather updates (‘this day is sunny and bright with cumulus clouds, a little bit of humidity, high in the mid-eighties, storm front from the Midwest approaching’), and lobster recipes from ...”