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Oh perfect word, shaped to meaning like a body without an ounce of fat: supple, strong, walking through the centuries like a god.
By Sy SafranskyAugust 1996Bad news is supposed to travel fast, but this news took nearly three months to get from a snowcapped mountain in Vermont to my office in North Carolina. It finally arrived on a beautiful spring afternoon, eyes downcast, dragging its heels.
By Sy SafranskyJuly 1996I wondered how I’d feel when the place was gone. It would stay alive in my memory, but I couldn’t take much comfort from that. Memories we’re sure are indelible — how long do they really last?
By Sy SafranskyApril 1996Mark O’Brien spends virtually every moment of every day encased in an iron lung in a room eleven feet wide and twenty feet long and seven and a half feet high.
By Jeff TietzApril 1996February 1996Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
It just bursts from me like a thunderclap, only there’s never any clap when my Vision grabs hold. It’s like I fall asleep, but my eyes stay open and the hand holding the pen just moves over the paper all by itself.
By Penelope MoffetFebruary 1996I keep imagining that someday I’ll get caught up: write those letters, read those books. What a great imagination!
By Sy SafranskyDecember 1995I swore to hate the woman who told me to undress, who sat me on the examining table, and who took my father away to talk with him outside my presence. I hated her for her chilly brusqueness, for having seen me in my underpants, and for having mentioned within earshot the words cystic fibrosis.
By Matt CurtisNovember 1995Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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