Page 33 "...The Henry Miller of France?"

From page 33 of the book:  "...Owen's brain began to reel with the calculations of forced literary enhancement.  Georges Ebert.  Georges Ebert.  Georges Ebert the novelist?  The Henry Miller of France?  Never a Nobel winner but always on the list?  This was Georges Ebert?!"

[American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring. He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)]

Page 16 "...the New York Yankees were the Liberators of Oppressed..."

From page 16 of the book:  "...His subscriptions to baseball tabloids and the arsenal of baseball encyclopedias filled his bedroom bookshelves to the point of mania.  When he had first met her, he'd told Sarah, self-righteously, that the New York Yankees were the Liberators of Oppressed Peoples Everywhere."

Page 8 "...the quashed livelihoods of World War Two London and Dresden..."

From page 8 of the book:  "...While Owen complained of the mayor's lack of sensitivity toward Queens, Manhattan being the borough of choice, I pictured him--Owen--and myself standing amidst the quashed livelihoods of World War Two London and Dresden, with no hope in the world except for defeat, with no direction in our lives except toward sadness."

Page 6 "...A flight crew strolled past us..."

From page 6 of the book:  "...A flight crew strolled past us toward the locked door of the gate. Smiles all around, there was talk of insurance and "Twin Peaks" and the Bonnie Raitt Collection."