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… the cosmic and humanity touch. But it seems to me they have also shed the flower that was inside the husk. Of course, … made her realise that the cosmos wouldn’t. When you come up against the cosmos, your consciousness is likely to … our precious England. Philip and I are both prepared to die for England, at any moment.” At the moment, England does …

… at the piano, her spinster shoes pedaling. Years later we commiserate. She was born at the wrong time. Was she virgin … of stories, The Bell at the End of a Rope , is forthcoming from Narrative Library. Her first collection, Fruit … notable books from The New York Times. Find out more at her website. feminism By Abby Frucht …

… our first American recipe for ice cream, then no vulgar commonplace, is in the writing of a President of the … political speech, as a man who had “abjured his native victuals,” and was unfaithful to good, old-fashioned roast beef. … a oz. a time, for a single person. A pound of tea making 126 cups costs 2 D. 126 cups or ounces of coffee = 8 lb. cost …

… But Elvis wasn’t alive, and now when the tourist ladies went weeping to Graceland their faces were more … look like tourists, that the bartender thought they might come back? If so, did that make him straight, a guy who … how my former frat brother’s doing, the former head of the IFC, you know what that is? I didn’t think so. Fraternity …

… Short fictions don’t lodge themselves in my thoughts. They come and they go, and then they exist on the page, or in my … with my father at the moment of his death. Right before he died, he looked up to the ceiling and said “Jesus, Joseph, … capable of the focused intensity of poetry. That said, I also especially like working on plays with a director, …