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...

“The people he loved, he thought, were visitors, and waiting inside them was the possibility of someone better or someone worse, someone...

On April 22, 1959, the 34-year-old southern novelist and short-story writer Flannery O’Connor visited Vanderbilt University and read her...

“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...

“I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless.”

George Saunders and his wife, Paula, in 1986. February 1986 Tobias Wolff calls my parents’ house in Amarillo, Texas, leaves a message:...

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...

New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings on Nation, Class and Patriarchy

Spade sat down in the armchair beside the table and without any preliminary, without an introductory remark of any sort, began to tell...

by Barbara Ehrenreich

“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” - Piet Hanema

TO PAUL VERLAINE Charleville, April 1872 [...] Right now work is about as far from my thoughts as my fingernails are from my eyes. Tough...

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...

Good writer but I actually didn't like these much.