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Visitors Rev. 4

Anne Carson

‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’

Cousins

Angela Carter

‘It sounded like the birth of tragedy.’

Mother and Son:
Life and Fate

Robert Chandler

‘Nothing made her happier than to sacrifice herself for her son’s happiness.’

Cotton Variation

Cortney Lamar Charleston

‘fibrous little trauma fruit, wan little wound-licker’

A Coup

Bruce Chatwin

‘You do not understand. In this country one understands nothing.’

Field Notes on a Marriage

Te-Ping Chen

‘I tell myself it doesn’t do to fixate too much on the dead: apart from everything else, they can’t answer you.’

Two Poems

Heather Christle

‘I am asking in case it happens, / because anything can and even does.’

Lazy Boy

Josh Cohen

‘I don’t see him staring back at me from the La-Z-Boy, I see me, I see a crystalline image of my own burned-out soul’

Charlotte Collins | Notes on Craft

Charlotte Collins

Charlotte Collins on the craft of translation. ‘Literary translators don’t just translate the ‘meaning’ of a text; we translate the feel of it.’

Sirens

Jorge Consiglio

‘A knock-off Conrad. He’d drive us to school in his car.’

On Taking Time

Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook on the art of slow writing.

Hulk

Robert Coover

Robert Coover envisions a Trumpian Hulk for a modern America.

Two Poems

Julia Copus

‘The me that was then / follows, watching from the dark / theatre of my skull.’

Fixation

Patrick Cottrell

‘It began with the ant farm in second grade.’