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Total Number of Articles: 10
First Article on this Page: September 15, 2023
Latest Article on this Page: May 3, 2024
“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—‘Such as I am, she will shortly …
“This is the cow.” – Gabriel García Márquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
When a plague of insomnia sweeps the fictional town of Macondo in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” its residents find themselves tossing and turning together.…
“(I realize that I am forever combing reality for signs of literature.)” – Annie Ernaux, “Exteriors.”
From 1985 to 1992, French writer Annie Ernaux kept a diary of a new town (more to the point: of the people—strangers—in it.) In …
“Perhaps it took the marriage of Now and Then, here in the weeks leading up to football season, to make us realize that in death we are declassified, whether it arrives in European forests that smell like attics or while …
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” – Daphne du Maurier, “Rebecca”
So begins my favorite book.
Widely held as one of the greatest opening lines in fiction, du Maurier inserts the reader immediately into the dream-like world …
“I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air—I write because I so deeply want to speak.” – Clarice Lispector, “Água Viva”
There is something exceptionally special about a book borrowed.
In uncovering words underlined and pages dog-eared by the …
“And I’m starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life’s sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked …
“Once she turned on me in apparent fury and shouted, ‘You goose!’ and then, before I had time to burst into tears, added in an explanatory tone, ‘That’s a metaphor.’” – May Sarton, “I Knew a Phoenix”
At the Shady …
“The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even vulgarly do.” – J.D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey.”
So began “Zooey,” first published in the The New Yorker in 1957. The …
“As for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, no one knows where, a sheep we never saw has or has not eaten a rose …” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince.”
The best sentences …
