‘Later, she sat me in front of a large mirror …’
Em Cooper responds to Maja Hrgović’s ‘Zlatka’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
‘Later, she sat me in front of a large mirror …’
Em Cooper responds to Maja Hrgović’s ‘Zlatka’ in Granta 115: The F Word.
‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
‘The viewer has to pour their own unconscious into interpreting these images, make them their own, allow themselves to be encouraged by the existence of a void.’
‘I now see Melting Rainbows as a self-referential project to parse the universe which we inhabit.’
‘The photograph we are left with and the memory of that time do not progress along the same time axes.’
‘He chewed on the syllables until they sounded the way they did in movies.’
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