Stores as Magic Places
When I was a child the only truly magic spaces were stores. Giving money to
another person across a counter was the most highly charged experience
imaginable, and when it was combined with
The Roaches Of Matrimony
This piece was originally published in 2013.
There we were a few months in—hunched on the sheets with our knees crushed up
beneath our chins, covers flung out to make a malformed
Glass Forest
after Glass Forest installation by Dale Chihuly in collaboration with James
Carpenter, 1971
A glass tree falls in an empty room, perceived
to be a forest of creatable light. No one is there
Stepping Outside
“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
Roberto Bolaño: Never Kill a Child
“To be brave, knowing beforehand that you’ll be defeated, and to go out and
fight: that’s literature.” —Roberto Bolaño
Some years ago, while flipping through a British literary magazine, I did