‘Thank you for holding… What is the nature of your complaint?’
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‘The first few apartments Claude inspects have the air of people who haven't budged in years.’
‘Thank you for holding… What is the nature of your complaint?’
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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.
Judy Budnitz was born in 1973 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of a novel, If I Told You Once, which was was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and two short-story collections: Flying Leap and Nice Big American Baby. She has received grants from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Budnitz now lives in San Francisco.
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‘It’s right to extract bone from the afterlife’
A poem by Peter Gizzi.
‘I wish I could entrust my life to a more solid structure, but whatever. It’s not like anyone gets to file complaints around here.’
Fiction by Mateo García Elizondo, translated by Robin Myers.
‘Remember when we were / young and the end was a black hole at the edge of forever, / a million light years away.’
‘This series showcases a more intimate kind of human absence.’ Nam Le introduces the photographs of Bruno Fert.
‘The thought of selling the shares seems disrespectful, like burning the letters of the dead. However, the market has been softening over the last two months and people are beginning to say that the bull market is over.’
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