The Faraway Nearby – Rebecca Solnit
Stories liberate us. Stories trap us.
Benediction sets out to do what old-fashioned realism, at its best, took as its central ambition, to portray life as lived, without the kind of artificial distortions that would make it seem either better or worse than the actuality itself allows.
A Guide To Being Born – Ramona Ausubel
These are fleshy fictions rooted in reality, miraculous bodies that produce and become disused like every other.
Brando, My Solitude – Arno Bertina
The narrator tries to ensnare his grandfather in prose.
The Dream of Doctor Bantam – Jeanne Thornton
Then I realized the problem: the cult wasn’t scary enough.
But what, exactly, is man in the middle between?
I would like to suggest that Anne Carson’s Red Doc> is a clock, a clock that takes the measure of its readers and their world by entrancing them with anachronism and myth.
The Electric Cool Aid Vein Rub Test
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Connections that arise not out of the expression of meaning, but from the feeling of not quite being able to fully communicate anything.
The story’s structure, mirroring the novel’s title, presents two narratives leaning toward each other with an inevitable intersection.