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The Oyster Diaries
By Nancy Lemann“When I learned of his transgression I threw myself into Dante and Shakespeare, seeking to understand the world that I had failed to see.”
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Fiction
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Against Rereading
By Oscar Schwartz“To this day, when I read something that functions as a hinge in my life—a book that rearranges me internally—I won’t reread it.”
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Rereading
My Lesbian Novel
By Renee Gladman“When people start acting stupid I usually stop reading. Those people aren’t ready to be characters yet.”
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The Black Madonna
By Aaron Robertson“For all her poise and stillness, the Black Madonna was not static. She looked out, and in her eyes were glints of recognition.”
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Arts & Culture
Person Walking Backward
By Kim Hyesoon“Inside the head there lives a lonely dog / It is drooling spit”
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Poetry
Passengers on the Night Train
By Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill“It might have all begun days or weeks before that morning in early summer when the cigarette and the newspaper vendors at the train station reported that the soldiers were coming home.”
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Fiction
Paper Bags
By G. Peter Jemison“Paper Bags collects pieces spanning four decades, on bags garnered from Jemison’s own purchases.”
