“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but… Read More »graham greene on the importance of superficiality
“…a detective must find it as important as a novelist to amass his trivial material before picking out the right clue. But how difficult that… Read More »selection: the memoirist’s dilemma
I’ll settle for the color of skin. Skin is the color of his skin, which is my skin, and one day while running my skin… Read More »Feet
by Todd Chapman
That is not true. Mommy did not call you an asshole. Mommy does not use that kind of language. Not with her little girl, who… Read More »Run Away
by Jay Boyer
I was not the only Irishman on the SS Arizona, as we moored outside New York harbor, but I certainly wore the finest ankle-length otter-lined… Read More »The Roaring Ocean Does Not Roar
by James Warner
What then shall I do this morning? How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this… Read More »What We Are Doing
“I have tried to disregard as much as possible the history of literature. When my students asked me for a bibilography, I told them, ‘A… Read More »Borges on Criticism & Compulsory Happiness
I have read almost all of Croce, and though I am not always in agreement with him, I am enchanted by him. Enchantment, as Stevenson… Read More »Borges on enchantment
The first time I visited Latvia, my parents took me to Ventspils to see the city where my father had spent his teen years, just… Read More »Letter from Latvia
by Zinta Aistars
In 2005, Michelle Richmond conducted this interview with Kate Braverman. Topics discussed: Braverman’s long career, experimentation in writing, book autopsies, San Francisco writers, revision, writing about climate, live audiences,… Read More »10 Questions: an interview with Kate Braverman