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"It was a clear, warm day, with a sky as clean and deep as laundry blueing above the buildings, and it was also payday, time for the traditional after-lunch stroll to the bank."
middle sentence of "Revolutionary road" by #RichardYates on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-375-70844-8-middle-sentence.php

Seven favourite authors (hard to pick just seven!) #bookstodon 
#KateAtkinson 
#MaggieOFarrell 
#MaryLawson 
#ThomasHardy 
#RichardYates
#LianeMoriarty
#BelindaBauer
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Most books with movie covers are deplorable, but not this one. This edition of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates is absolutely beautiful. I just started reading it this weekend & so far I'm really enjoying it. #books #bookstodon #cover #bibliophile #booksta #amreading #november #fiction #richardyates

"The final dying sounds of their dress rehearsal left the Laurel Players with nothing to do but stand there, silent and helpless, blinking out over the footlights of an empty [...]"
first sentence of "Revolutionary road" by #RichardYates on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-375-70844-8-first-sentence.php

#introduction Hi! I’m Kim—a #writer and #editor. I love helping authors of the marvelous, fantastical, and strange harness their literary magic. I also edit #BoneParade.

I love to write (#magicalrealism, #speculative), read (#RichardBrautigan, #CarsonMcCullers, #PhilipKDick, #GabrielGarcíaMárquez, #VirginiaWoolf, #MilanKundera, #RichardYates), listen to music (#TheReplacements, #TomWaits, #LeonardCohen, #VicChesnutt), play #DnD, and be with my partner, our cat, and my favorite humanoids.

How could you ever learn to trust the things you made up?
#RichardYates