‘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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‘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.
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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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.’
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