a. natasha joukovsky
extracts blog
After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
Donna Tartt | THE SECRET HISTORY
"His students--if they were any mark of his tutelage--were imposing enough, and different as they all were they shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least..."
Donna Tartt | THE SECRET HISTORY
"Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside of literature?..."