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flood the bathroom and burn the eggs 21 Jul 2013 | 12:19 am
Christina was in a difficult position. She had chosen to build a relationship with a single parent, which meant she was having a relationship with two people. It takes a very special person to do this...
summer 9 Jul 2013 | 10:10 pm
It's always like this, isn't it? Waiting for summer, waiting for summer, waiting for summer and then, boom: picnics, popsicles, mosquito bites; when did it begin? I switched readers, but somehow the w...
in the midst of all their shortcoming 8 Jun 2013 | 05:41 pm
When I hear myself praising a book these days, the things I seem to be really appreciating is a fearlessness when it comes to compassion and sincerity, as well as a willingness to examine questions of...
jazz 7 Jun 2013 | 06:37 pm
One, really? I could do five with some level of comfort, but one is nearly impossible. But if I have to do one I guess it has to be Toni Morrison’s Jazz. It both took off the top of my head and became...
a private river 13 Apr 2013 | 12:55 am
The best memoirs—like This Boy’s Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance—bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. Lidia Yuknavitc...
just go to bed earlier 23 Mar 2013 | 10:53 pm
Home of Brian W. Ferry on Sight Unseen via Lena Corwin
less strict 22 Mar 2013 | 10:04 pm
CALLE: He began by telling me that he loved my work but that many of my shows looked like open books on the wall. NERI: That’s a provocative criticism to make to an artist who has always worked with ...
in which a heart 19 Mar 2013 | 08:25 pm
I’m looking for fiction in which a heart struggles against itself, in which the messy unmanageable complexity of the world is revealed. Sentences that are so sharp they cut the eye. Junot Diaz, Boston...
i made up ice bats 18 Mar 2013 | 07:51 am
On writing: “we’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. s...
and then 7 Mar 2013 | 12:15 am
I would say to get the character in your mind. Once he is in your mind, and he is right, and he’s true, then he does the work himself. All you need to do then is to trot along behind him and put down ...
