… do it that way, a process that follows full circle from the comic to the tragic. What first strikes one about writing in … qualified, with cautious provisos for every contingency. It also safely sticks to the general and the abstract, shunning … jargon precisely because it is unnecessary, because it embodies nothing new. This language is like the emperor’s new …
Essays
… was read by a broadly national, although very limited, audience. By publishing a “national” journal based in … of all topics and to all stimulating and engaging points of view.” Previously, in a letter to a potential … editor Stringfellow Barr sent out form letters in late 1926 to potential subscribers in various regions of the …
Fiction
… as though stitched together from pelts of smaller animals. Bill had been certain it was menacing them, stalking … building that could have been in Paris except for the soldiers standing guard in ill-fitting green uniforms. Even the … he ordered shrimp cocktail and then refused to eat it. As a compromise, Bill and Lyla spent the first week of their …
… dwindling, dwindling, The bird had dwindled out before they died. Yet always this one watching now would hear them And …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … Kate Snyder Excerpt from “Is it time for small plates to die now?” The Pool , Lauren Bravo, April 6, 2018 2. If … Hughes appeared as the scruffy poet who had fled his studies at Columbia for the pleasures of la vie bohème , while …
… assigned counselor, Dr. Goodwin, suggested that we find a common interest. This was the advice we bought with our … not just for her but for us, for myself. When the baby died late last year, I went looking for reasons: Rhonda had … who is partnered with Phil, near the front of the line. He points to her feet, giving her further instruction in the …