DEBBY'S DREAM HOUSE by Iddo Gefen
1. I found the job through a newspaper ad. I didn’t even know there were people who built dreams. I was sure they were just created by...
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from Julia
“The people he loved, he thought, were visitors, and waiting inside them was the possibility of someone better or someone worse, someone...
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On making the right gesture
On April 22, 1959, the 34-year-old southern novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor visited Vanderbilt University and read her...
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loved
“People said this crop of youth was weak, but we knew differently. We knew they were so strong -- so much stronger than us, and equipped...
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another heartbreaker
“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”
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My Writing Education: A Time Line by George Saunders
George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...
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qotd
You get them wrong before you meet them: you get them wrong while you’re with them and then you get home to tell somebody else about the...
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Stand up, Struggle Forward by Sanyika Shakur
New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy
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The Flitcraft Parable
Spade sat down in the armchair beside the table and without any preliminary, without an introductory remark of any sort, began to tell...
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Couples by John Updike
“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” - Piet Hanema
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Rimbaud Complete Vol. II
TO PAUL VERLAINE Charleville, April 1872 [...] Right now work is about as far from my thoughts as my fingernails are from my eyes. Tough...
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Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
And being a salesman he could not stop analyzing in a really micro-obsessive nitty-gritty way what got him off. It's not what you see...
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Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte
Good writer but I actually didn't like these much.
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