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… time railing against either the high-brow or low-brow audiences that have remained indifferent to Settle’s work, … to academic critics for several compelling reasons. Vance points to her refusal “to follow fads in fiction writing”; I … Scapegoat, The Killing Ground —took shape over a span of 26 years, with each addition demanding that the nature of …

Interruptions I long for some, even one would be a beginning, not this long flat stretch of just me and my improvising of waste, of a kind of heroic negligence that life does not appreciate. My loved one is wobbling—O creme de menthe! See, I am making my …

… thirst for the real. Everything in them is serious. “For reals,” as Marusya would say. Also, war movies always leave me … I was nostalgic for gunfire, trench fleas, and hand-to-hand combat. Drank, watched A Ballad about a Soldier , thought about my grandfather, who was declared …

… No Man Alone Now “You could always come back,” said Hemingway about the American culture he had … Hemingway leaves behind him the European systems, he also abandons his own American earth: Our people went to … post-War disenchantment which Hemingway expressed in “Soldier’s Home”— the living along “without consequences,” this …

… he lived apart and visited only once in two weeks, always coming at midnight on Fridays and disappearing at dawn on … the morning and took him away. Many people thought he had died and were shocked to see him back walking the road a … which his blood would empty to the ground. But he was also a self-destructing fungus who needed no one to kill …