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    “This book is both witty and fierce. It’s a gift that keeps on giving, and we can only hope its nonagenarian author continues to do so as well.”

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    The first three paragraphs of the author’s note of David Plante’s new memoir, Worlds Apart come as something of a warning:

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    The Most Wanted Man in China is Fang Lizhi’s memoir, written in 1989 but not published until now, four years after his death.

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    "Selig has also given us a book that captures his love for the game. There is goodness here, a transforming goodness."

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    "Autobiography is unmistakably the work of the singer and lyricist of the still-beloved band The Smiths."

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    “I have always preferred to disguise my feelings from others.”—almost every character in almost every short story by Gerald Murnane.