I'm not all the way there yet. I'm just of the belief that everything is going to work out. It's my hope that we don't even have to go there. I'm having a hard time with it to be honest with you.

Gupta's work interests me because I think we share something in the sense that we have a belief in the language of our chosen materials and objects.

Dellosso’s cleverly plotted second Jed Patrick novel (after 2015’s Centralia) finds the Afghan war vet hiding with his wife, Karen, and their eight-year-old daughter, Lilly, in a cabin in the Idaho wilderness. Two months earlier, two CIA agents gave him a thumb drive containing “every damaging piece of information about the Centralia Project,” the exposure of which threatens to cause a “scandal that would be talked and read about for decades to come.” Then one day Jed returns to the cabin to find Karen in tears. She tells him that three armed men burst into the cabin asking for the thumb drive, but she didn’t know where it was. The men took Lilly, and vowed they would return for Karen. More shocks follow. Meanwhile, CIA technician Tiffany Stockton discovers a plot to control Jed’s mind in a sophisticated update of The Manchurian Candidate. Can she stop him from becomes an unwilling assassin? Dellosso expertly misdirects readers, but they should be prepared for only serviceable prose.

The weaker the intellect, the stronger the belief

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

The last two weeks, we've been without our coach. It's a big factor, and it's something we have to work through. There's no way around it. It's not like we can change the ruling or anything. When he is there, his presence is known. We all have to step up as a team and try and get a victory [tonight].