Like a severed head finishing a sentence
Tragedy moved Amy Hempel to write. When she was 19, “her mother killed herself and within a year her mother’s sister did the same.”
Tragedy moved Amy Hempel to write. When she was 19, “her mother killed herself and within a year her mother’s sister did the same.”
Some schoolkids petitioned their representative to declare Moby-Dick Massachusetts’ state book. The Boston Globe suggests other possibilities.
In Zadie Smith’s “Hanwell Senior,” published in The New Yorker this week, a father gives his young son some penny bangers and then disappears.
Postal regulators have accepted a Time Warner proposal that would increase the burden on indie publishers while cutting costs for large magazines. (Via.)
Zone Johnston, my granny’s father, was always dragging his wife and kids to carpentry jobs throughout Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, and beyond, and then abandoning them in favor of a new pretty face. According to my mom, “[his wife’s] people would have to come to where they were and take them home until Zone finished his work and wandered back . . .