Layne Hilyer received his BA in English and Teaching English as Second Language from Asbury University in Lexington, Kentucky. He currently lives there with his wife Lauren.
“Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything
would amount to knowing whom I ‘haunt.’ I must admit that this last word is
misleading, tending
“How, then, can I translate into words the limitless Aleph, which my floundering
mind can scarcely encompass?” – Jorge Luis Borges in “The Aleph”
In the collection of Roberto Bolaño’s nonfiction, Between Parenthesis,
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.” —Baudelaire
In his essay “Exiles,” Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño writes, “All literature
carries exiles within it, whether the writer has had to