I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the … - Myla Goldberg

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I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Myla Goldberg

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

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She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

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School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

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Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

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Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

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As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end.

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