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… neck, sending him in a shamed loop that ends again at the points of their vulvas. Otherwise, he moves from their warm bodies toward their fresh urine in the grass, which he smells … own. At work Alice is surprisingly strong, moving with unselfconscious severity, fitting metal poles together or forking …

… After the book’s appearance there was a brief spate of encomiums, and, for a few weeks, the book was a “bestseller.” … first is the belief that there is no longer much of an audience for the kind of sentences Mitchell writes: the short, … Dickens achieved with the rhetoric of imagination.” Cowley points to both Mitchell’s and Dickens’ ability to derive …

… fleeting relief. I went to doctors, many doctors. They recommended licorice tea, nettle tea, peppermint tea, … given all of this alimentary advocacy, and all of my own dietary austerity, is my stomach, at forty-five, still … my father always kept a flattened toilet roll in his briefcase. He never knew to change his diet, and drank heavily, …

… two years later. Pedro Páramo would arguably go on to become the defining novel of Mexico’s twentieth century, … and offered him in return one of the dulce de leche candies I had purchased from a street vendor. He smiled widely, … of the Mexican Revolution. Nevertheless, Aguilar Mora points out, Cartucho pioneered many of the stylistic traits …

… a billboard at the corner where blues legend Robert Johnson died, reportedly from poison, in one of Greenwood’s juke … is a far more dubious affair.) A Mississippi Blues Commission marker indicates Baptist Town is “known for its … But serving as a waiter in Jim Crow Mississippi also required daily humiliations for black waitstaff meant …