‘It is not so much that we are splitting up that is really worrying me, it is the fact that she keeps quoting Martin Amis.’
It is not so much that we are splitting up that is really worrying me, it is the fact that she keeps quoting Martin Amis. The other day we were in our bedroom having a silly argument about where things hang in the wardrobe when she said to me, ‘Like Martin Amis says, you go when you can no longer …
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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.
‘I discover some rough skin on her elbow. I run my tongue along it’.
‘I realize with a fresh horror that Jonathan is seeing me as the sin’
‘Culture has been bound up since the beginning with extraction.’
The editor introduces the issue.
‘Write through your first ending is advice I give, again and again.’
