Byatt profiled
A.S. Byatt says she’s losing the “novel writer’s compulson to do damage to characters.”
A.S. Byatt says she’s losing the “novel writer’s compulson to do damage to characters.”
I’ve praised Greg Ames’ short story “Physical Discipline” so many times, with so little specificity, it’s become embarrassing. Even more embarrassing: the fact that his first novel, Buffalo Lockjaw is out, and I have yet to read it (unlike Aimee Bender and Sam Lipsyte, whose quotes appear on the back cover). Ames is featured tomorrow night at Beatrice editor Ron . . .
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Macy Halford reads Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a parable illustrating the dangers of motherless creation.
Recently I remembered a compilation of my granny’s (pictured) sayings that appeared online in 2003 on a site that’s since gone to internet heaven. I managed to dig up the list, so here are the “Favorite Expressions of My Deceased (and Beloved) Texan Grandmother, with Explanations”: 1. He looked at me like a calf at a new gate. Translation: “Even . . .