Barthelme, the Houstonian
“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don...
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“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don...
Once upon a time, in a bed that was not my own, I wandered through a dream that was not mine, and woke abruptly from a sleep that was not mine, to find strangers staring directly i...
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If you’re deprived of a home, deprived of access to your family, you learn that, actually, being bound to others is the significant thing.
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Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.
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While she slept, the prince measured her hair, which in sunlight was the color of butterscotch. He admired her view of the forest and fields. He observed peasants passing below. He...
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“The few words it contains are indecipherable, of no language. (The letters look Hebrew—if you don’t know Hebrew and have never seen Hebrew letters before.)”
I believed that, when it came to words, everything was allowed.
It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren’t mixing us up?
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A lesson from a Pulitzer Prize–winning story.
The man with the fife was good at getting rid of Hamelin’s rats. What, the townspeople wondered, could he do with the children?
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