… 25,000 Americans insulting him at once. Worst of all, the audience was howling his rival’s name. Or rather, his … poor mother’s fear. He sells pastries and studies to be a commercial accountant while the titles come one after the … When the bell separated them, the judges gave two advantage points to Boom Boom. “But that approach couldn’t last long. …
… group of people setting out earnestly in the 1780’s to give combat to a corrupt age, a few were Friends and assorted … Party’s moral organizations. These were the societies parodied endlessly by the novelists of the nineteenth century as … editions in twenty-three languages—a recorded total of 1,268,000 copies—before Hall’s death. It in turn fades before …
Fiction
… Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey “When I die,” the five-year-old told his little sister, who was … recently and for longer they’d been enemies. So why had he come? A broken promise will tie two people together more … he was worried she would say, Well, it’s obvious. Wolf equals death. She prided herself these days on how easily she …
Interviews
… why the title of the story collection, This Close, did not come from the title of one of the stories? I can tell you a … in a book. It must be much more confusing now, with so many websites and bloggers asking for books. It might be very … I write what I am interested in, and hope it will find an audience. I don’t know that it would make a lot of sense to do …
… Country Music The man was a newcomer to Sally’s Place, barefooted in his low-quarter shoes, … customer wanted to know. “I remember the night old Patsy died and exactly where I was,” the man answered instead, … were unbuttoned showing all these chains and Catholic medals on his chest. And when Gene sang Be-Bop-A-Lula , that …
Poetry
… the darling sparrows chirping for their lives. Somebody had died. Somebody was not out there in the yellow fields, …