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Layouts of combs and brushes, curling irons, razors, dye containers, soaps, hair samples, jewelry, and such feel not repetitive but satisfyingly completist: familial reunions of associated objects, each secreting a tellable tale.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
“The ceremony may not be legally recognized back home, but it makes for a unique, tellable story that epitomizes an exotic locale.”
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2019
She has witnessed or experienced a book’s worth of tellable tales, tall or otherwise.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2017
Not because it is in fact clearly identifiable as the beginning, but rather for aesthetic reasons—because it makes the beginning tellable.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2014
This little man who started the whole thing passes out of the story, and after a time he passed altogether out of the world of things, visible and tellable.
From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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