… mistake. It seemed important to those he worked for that he come from someplace relatively harmless. The East was out of … Mrs. Mabus included, seemed always a way of forcing a false respectability on him which he felt he did not deserve. … on around him was one of those claustrophic family tragedies, he imagined, in which what was being worked out had …
… especially for a sedentary man, and almost as important as diet. But she could not really believe that exercise had to … wore both a Mason’s pin and an iron cross stuck on opposite points of his leather jacket collar, and the other had no … him slightly longer than usual to get back on a gearless 26-incher. Getting off the bike and standing alone and still …
Poetry
… my bones have ground fine like my mother’s if I promise I come by them honestly will you swap out my joints or— will … shall I tell you I obeyed my doctors or— will I present as combative and what if we pretend I’m a man and what if our … if I’m late can I run to catch it will I catch it before I die will I take hikes with radiant butches will I be better …
… these archaeological revelations are the diaries and journals which patient scholars and connoisseurs are constantly, … to increase our knowledge of a departed age, but also, so complete and real is the atmosphere, to live among the … Norfolk. This morning about a quarter after Ten o’clock died my ever dear Uncle James Woodforde whoes loss I shall …
Essays
… for a projected special issue of Salmagundi magazine. My companions on this visit were the novelist Bharati Mukherjee … wearing American sports clothes, khakis or jeans. She had also, on this occasion, painted in the middle of her … justifying the deep, often unconscious prejudices of his audience. This was obvious, he felt, and no recitation of the …
Fiction
… Fields and Fields Aflame Who would Oval become now that her mother was dead, she wondered. She … him not too long after he realized her mother would soon die. While still in his right mind, he’d come to visit as … once was. Within the next hour, the undertaker, who had also been one of Iris’s customers, came to collect her. He …