John Dufresne
"In America there is a great tradition of Southern literature. It was the literature I loved when I was growing up. It's not why I moved to the South, but it's why I felt at home there, in a way."
Why I Went to Portugal
Katy and Kyle suggested I take language lessons, but I wasn't going to Portugal to talk. I would speak as I ate and slept—not deliberately; indiscriminately and disjointedly; between slugs of fizzy wine and lungfuls of potent Moroccan hashish; almost by accident. Dee, my girlfriend at the time, joked I was off to try my …
Christopher Rice
"I believe that my material, the material I like to write, would be laughed out of your average writing program. That I would be encouraged or pushed to write something I didn't want to and follow rules that I have made very clear that I will not follow."
Alex Beam
"I asked myself the question, 'What are my intentions?' I realized my intentions were perfection. I wanted to write a perfect 750-word column. I'm judging what I produced against the ideal possibility of what would have been perfect."
Wit: A Poem
[there’s] something to be said … not much, for the idea that everyone ought to commit suicide once in a while Hayden Carruth Listen to the hiss zigzag aggressions, depression, graphs while calmer heads shake their souls -- stirred in sadness do the best they can? Who wanted to be the kid …
Slightly Retarded Bagboy Asking Out Checkout Girl
After she says "sorry, no" to "arcade games and ice cream cones," she only wishes he was smart enough to know how he's hurting himself by asking out someone with early acceptance to Princeton-- how her heart breaks, too, in realizing honesty isn't proportionate to intelligence as she lies about the boyfriend driving up from …
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“The Meaning of the Universe,” by Annie Besant, from An Introduction to Yoga
Let us, first of all, ask ourselves, looking at the world around us, what it is that the history of the world signifies. When we read history, what does the history tell us? It seems to be a moving panorama of people and events, but it is really only a dance of shadows; the people …
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