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In 'The Third Hotel,' my narrator, Claire, is wrestling with this sense of perpetual unfinishedness. She's trying to make sense of her husband's death, how someone's life can just stop and not continue, and of the lack of resolution in her own inner life.
— Laura van den Berg
Tags: husband, stop, death, life

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The moment when my husband and I clasped hands and turned from our officiant, newly wed, was the most light-filled of my life.
— Laura van den Berg
Tags: husband, my-life, moment, life
I wager we have a vast amount of literature out there that tends to the stories of men, so I've never really worried too much about attending to stories of women.
— Laura van den Berg
Tags: literature, never, men, women
Since childhood, I've been a fan of mysteries - 'Nancy Drew' lovers unite! - but 'Vertigo' struck me as an entirely new take on the genre.
— Laura van den Berg
Tags: fan, new, childhood, me
A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it's common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.
— Laura van den Berg
Tags: enough, lights, chance, universe
Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.
— Laura van den Berg
Tags: humor, walk, art, life
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