Boredom leads to evil, but in the meantime there was an August when I still loved my husband. It went like this.
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Boredom leads to evil, but in the meantime there was an August when I still loved my husband. It went like this.
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‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
‘Following United rarely brings me any great joy and most often it depresses me. If I could disengage, I would.’
Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
‘I deployed my body against an opponent like a blunt and effective instrument.’
John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
Olmos, born in Segovia, made his literary debut in 1998 with A bordo del naufragio, a finalist for the Herralde Prize. Since then he has published the novels Asi de loco te puedes volver (1999), Trenes hacia Tokio (2006), El talento de los demás (2007), Tatami (2008) and El estatus (2009). He is also responsible for the volume Algunas ideas buenisimas que el mundo se va a perder (2009), compiled with texts from the Internet. For three years he lived in Japan, in the Tochigi Prefecture, where he taught Spanish and English. His blog is www.hkkmr.blogspot.com. He lives in Madrid.
More about the author →Peter Bush is a translator. His first literary translation was Juan Goytisolo’s Forbidden Territory (North Point Press, 1989) and, to date, Bush has translated eleven other titles in Goytisolo’s bibliography, including The Marx Family Saga and Exiled from Almost Everywhere. He has translated many Catalan writers including Josep Pla, Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales, Najat El Hachmi and Teresa Solana. His most recent effort is A Film (3000 meters) by Víctor Català, the classic 1919 feminist novel set in Barcelona’s criminal underworld. Bush lives and works in Bristol.
More about the translator →‘To go is always to go somewhere; returning, you return to nowhere. That’s the way it is.’
‘I came to feel that I was hiding here in the physical world, like a child who hides in a computer game to escape a more consequential reality.’
Tao Lin on his spiritual awakening, via psychedelics and the literature of near-death experiences.
‘I wasn’t against fashion; I wasn’t one of those people who need to make it into a whole statement about their intellect.’
Fiction by Zoe Dubno.
‘They say it takes a village to raise a child and the same can be true of killing.’
Amber Husain on meat.
‘He came to see, after a long agony, that it would be best to give it up.’
A new story by Lucy Ives.
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