Favorite Sentence: Timothy Egan's The Big Burn

"In that sense, lodgepole was like the Pacific salmon that made their way to the Continental Divide on the Idaho-Montana border--giving it up at death, in the high Rockies, for the next generation." (page 113)

Favorite Sentence: Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad

"The cold spasms in the scars on your wrists." (page 191)

Favorite Sentence: Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist

"But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end." (page 126)

Favorite Sentence: Philip Roth's Nemesis

"He filled his lungs with the harmless clean air of the Pocono Mountains, then bounded three steps forward, took off, and, in control of every inch of his body throughout the blind flight, did a simple swan dive into water he could see only the instant before his arms broke neatly through and he plumbed the cold purity of the lake to its depths."  (page 157)

Favorite Sentence: Richard Froude's Fabric (Horse Less Press)

"When I was younger, at school or church or somewhere, the teacher told us that if the phone rings in the night, it's rarely good news." (page 8)

Favorite Sentence: Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

"No, I’ll not say a word about it—here it is;—in publishing it—I have appealed to the world—and to the world I leave it;—it must speak for itself."

Favorite Sentence: Mathias Svalinas's I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur (Mud Luscious Press)

"Even when your loved one has been dead for so long that the junk mail in his name has stopped arriving in the mailbox." (page 46)