My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.
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‘My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.’
My first and only visit to a therapist cost me my red coral bracelet and my lover.
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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.
Margot Bettauer Dembo is a translator of German literature into English. She has translated works by Judith Hermann and Ödön von Horváth amongst others. She is the winner of Goethe-Institut Berlin Translator’s Prize in 1994. She lives in New York.
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‘The story distracts the readers from the heart of the matter; it distracts them from me.’
Fiction by Judith Hermann, translated by Katy Derbyshire.
‘Afterwards Ellen liked to say she had once been to America but couldn't remember it very well.‘
‘Time retreated, his dread crouched in the farthest recess of his mind.’
‘She wears a push up bra and a low-cut top, much to the admiration of the surfers. But it is not their attention she seeks.’
Fiction by Kathleen Ridgwell.
‘It was the universal dream. Cristiano Ronaldo earned more money in one week than the best engineer or lawyer did in one year. The boys knew that and I knew it, too.’
Fiction by Joshua Lubwama.
‘I wanted her to see me as a real man, with a little swagger, cool as this fall evening.’
An excerpt from Ingrid Persaud’s Love After Love.
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