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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
Edmund White
‘The freedom conferred by masks. Children and current wives cannot blame you for what your characters do and say.’
Self-Portrait as Amnesiac
John Burnside
‘Shoeboxes lined with eggs and empty / pomegranates drying in a bowl, / mousebones and wicker, chess pieces, muddled coats.’
Home
John Burnside & et al
Home is makeshift. Everything we build, everything we name, everything we hold dear and would not have taken from us is temporary and in constant need of re-imagining.
John Barth | Podcast
John Barth
John Barth discusses discovering William Faulkner and Lawrence Sterne as a student, the parallels between writing and arranging music, what happened to postmodernism and waiting for the muse to call.
Brodsky’s Room and a Half
Valeria Luiselli
‘It’s enough to sit in silence for the duration of a lighted cigarette in order to be taken over by the life force flourishing among the graves.’
A Trip to Syria
David McConnell
‘Several years ago, a friend and I stayed at the one hotel set amid the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s oasis capital, Palmyra, in the Syrian desert.’
Sky Burial
Maile Chapman
‘That was my first introduction to the way that the elderly are obliged to live: the dependence, the danger and the enormous expense when something does happen.’
Leaving Afghanistan
Christopher Merrill
‘An Afghan saying – if you turn over a rock, you will find a poet.'
Unleaving
Justin Mundhenk
‘She felt like she was stepping on someone’s knuckles. With each careful step, she heard the sound of breaking bones.’
That Father Lost
Dave Lucas
‘The last words I heard my father speak were Help me, over and over again. In all the rest of my life I will never reconcile this with any God I could dream of believing in.’
Abingdon Square Park
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
‘I once had had a thought / About a thought I once had had.’
Chinelo Okparanta | Interview
Chinelo Okparanta & Yuka Igarashi
‘I wanted to be sure to approach their resistance to Nnenna’s homosexuality from a practical perspective – one of fear, rather than one of hate.’
Letters From Two Exit Strategists
Jacob Newberry & Vanessa Manko
‘I feel like I’ll spend a great many years unravelling whatever is being stored inside of me just now.’
City Boy
Judy Chicurel
‘I would have dreams that woke me in the middle of the night, my heart shaking inside my body.’
Summer
Jacob Newberry
‘I met Jay two summers after Katrina, two years after my parents separated, two years after I came out.’
Station
Ishion Hutchinson
‘The train station was a cemetery. / Drunk with spirits, another being entered.’
The Provincials
Daniel Alarcón
‘I'd been out of the Conservatory for about a year when my great-uncle Raúl died.’
Pay Attention
Sophie Cabot Black
‘I can only do what is here. But you / Have an entire congregation of choice’
Bonfire
David Long
In his New England town, when Hawkins was a boy, Independence Day was celebrated...
In Sight of the Lake
Alice Munro
‘She liked how the latticework would provide a touch of fantasy.’
Fiction by Alice Munro.
The End?
John Barth
‘What do you do when your daily routine comes to a halt, when your latest achievement just might be your last?’
Supernovae
Ellen Rachlin
‘Theory cannot be tangible fact / like driving on I-95 to get to a lecture / on supernovae.’
Detroit, 1966
Lynda Schuster
‘This is how it starts, my yearning to escape: with a snot-green triangular stamp from Qatar.’
