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Reproduced in Pinckney’s new memoir, “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan,” those aperçus, which belong in some kind of literary hall of fame, include:

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

The author dispenses aperçus: “Even among the unwanted there were unwanted”; “Ah, contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!”

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2021

But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2020

Poniewozik contrives many memorable aperçus to indicate Trump’s shape-shifting over the decades, in response to his environment.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 4, 2019

Elles y trouveront des matériaux très-précieux, et quelquefois même des tableaux et dés aperçus qui ne sont pas sans mérite.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard