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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Just like “love” in Raymond Carver’s iconic short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” “minimalism” is a contested term. Carver, the most famous minimalist, was averse to the label.
I went to the lawyer’s estate sale to see what kind of freak shit you accumulate when you have the money and the dedication to the life of the mind. The lawyer left behind 100,000 books, shelved on every floor of his Rittenhouse Square mansion. I had just moved to Philly from Portland, and what I needed was furniture (bookshelf, bed frame, surfaces to pile things on top). Instead, I went out to buy more books.
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. When a work of fiction is written in the first person, the story is filtered through the perspective of a single character speaking in the voice of “I,” describing events as they experience them. As the guiding consciousness of a narrative, the first-person voice is a remarkably flexible instrument: narrators range from the selfless to the self-absorbed, from the avoidant to the obsessive, from the wisecracking to the earnest.
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