The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.

I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.