… for vindication, the writer of contemporary history has also become a participant in his own historical narrative. One … of Malcolm Cowley. Neither in narrating Chambers’ anti-Communist activities of 1940 nor in reporting Cowley’s …
… to Lexington Avenue and the Empire State Building. Once the points of the compass are taken care of, and yet still from … of the hour, as we can see in this passage written June 26, 1953: The best time to write about one’s childhood is in … and lies bright on their foreheads. They are young. Their bodies and their wishes will come to nothing. It is our …
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Fiction
… Knock, Knock Heiko119 | Dreamstime.com It was just for the summer. And when he came back from … walls toward her head, just the inside of the teepee that points up and up toward a sky filled with crickets and … on the phone with “This is she” and saying “dissect,” not “die-sect” like most everyone did. These were the things her …
Poetry
… in the earliest and dimmest stage . —Martin Buber The petals of the dogwood trees are an inflamed guilty pink. Aztec … may be no resistence to this day’s vividness. Clarity must complete our sacrifice. The naked sun in his feathered cloak …
… original purity, infant cheeks. Two-in-the-morning you become a lawyer, “you” meaning me as well, arguing a case … try to end it in a joke, to see us as characters in a sitcom, and I pin the joke to the wall over our bed. Let’s look … on to tell me how my moustache makes you cringe. “It’s so false, like your voice, oh, you can be such a poseur,” you …