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This was lovely, and Moore remains one of our best writers. My husband teaches "Birds of America" regularly in his fiction workshops.

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Jul 6, 2022Liked by Ben Dolnick

Imagine writing an entire book of take your breath away “frictionless” pages. Thank you for giving clarity to such flows of sublime writing.

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White Noise. My God. Yes, White Mule. White Noise is probably in my top ten of forever books. No babies in White Noise I can recall but plenty of adolescence.

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Take a look at William Carlos Williams book White Noise for a baby named Flossie of Shakespearean stature. The first few paragraphs could be a free standing poem. Nonetheless, Williams captures Flossie’s infancy in subsequent poetry in motion with the competence available only to a practicing pediatrician who happens to be a poet with an urge to write novels.

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