‘I thought that this must be the sort of plane that crashes. What were a few more dead, travelling to the city of the dead?’
When my mother called the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong that August of 1967, the receptionist at the front desk simply told her, ‘They not here. They go Saigon with father.’ It’s odd that the fact my sister and I had actually entered a war zone did not register at first with my mother, but I al…
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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.
‘We do not understand why, nor did we covet such long life, but here we are, our respective addictions and madness with us to the end.’
‘He tried to think about what sort of person he wanted to be in this world and how he might bring that about.’
Fiction by Brandon Taylor.
‘A should probably write that it hit uz like a smack in the guts, or the red mist cem down or sumet like that, but in all honesty, a can just remember feelen upset.’
New fiction by Shaun Wilson.
‘This is a book I always return to for its melancholy tone, warm humour and psychological insight.’
