Word: weirdness
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...helping save an orphan, but withdrew his name when it learned of his faith. School officials blamed Goodspeed and asked her to leave. "I don't collect converts," she explains, "but I try to help people see that going to church isn't for the old and the weird...
...life of the Hottentot Venus, a 19th century African woman displayed as a freak because of her huge buttocks, one scene runs through the intermission. "I try to tell the story I'm hearing in my head, by any means necessary," she says. "And sometimes it comes out looking weird...
Open Helen DeWitt's debut novel, The Last Samurai, to a random page, and you may think you've stumbled upon some sort of guide to the Tower of Babel. There are bits of Greek and Japanese and Inuit. And, more than once, like weird typographical errors, a list of stops on the London Underground. This is babble with a purpose, though, which is all revealed in the fullness of a very satisfying--not to mention rapturously received--novel about a single mother and her genius...
...about trade sanctions in China. They'd ask me about the 1 million missing baby girls. I saw it as a great danger that people would see the book as some sort of template for how Chinese families are," she says. "To me, my family was the most weird entity. I happened to grow up in it, so that was my point of reference. I'm so much a specifist as a writer. I'm not a generalist...
...this sort of thing happens to me all the time. Innocent bystanders recommend movie, newspapers swoon over movie, Academy nominates movie. I go see movie and spend days fuming. My taste in movies, I've come to understand, is what might politely be called "unorthodox," or, more bluntly, "weird...