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In the title essay, she catalogues writers who lapsed into literary silence.
Patchett is at her lyrical best when she catalogues the jungle itself — with "neon colored frogs the size of dimes" and "lavender moths the size of quarters".
She catalogues the subsequent onslaught of abuse she received on Twitter in the book, but today is surprisingly sanguine about the experience.
As she catalogues the contents of Wickham's library, she discovers a memoir by his adopted daughter, Esther, whose existence had been ruthlessly wiped from history by relatives with an eye on his estate.
Pessl has fun elaborating the backstory — she catalogues the plots of Cordova's films, the pale-purple labels of his costume designer, Pauline Kael's reviews — but the foreground isn't always sufficiently compelling.
"State of Wonder," by Ann Patchett Harperr; $26.99) Patchett is at her lyrical best when she catalogues the jungle itself — with "neon colored frogs the size of dimes" and "lavender moths the size of quarters".
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How does Wasserstein's oeuvre stand up, decades after the cultural moments she catalogued?
Her voice grew hard with disgust as she catalogued her failures.
The first time I met her, she catalogued her accomplishments in gymnastics.
She had stayed in town working at the library, where she catalogued old, miscellaneous photos according to the objects or themes they contained: Fanaticism, Rhinoceros, Etiquette.
In 1957 she surveyed 200 classmates from Smith College, now housewives, most desperate; but when she catalogued their despair in an article, no women's magazine would publish it.
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