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By Javier Cercas“Literature is pleasure and knowledge, like sex. It’s useful only so long as one doesn’t set out to make it useful.”
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Bernadette Mayer on Her Influences
By Bernadette Mayer“Bill Berkson at the New School he told me I wrote too much like Gertrude Stein. This was quite prescient of him since I had never read Gertrude Stein, so I hurried to.”
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By Benjamin Krusling“my dream was to move to france / and become a warrior for the lord cuz / I was poor , confused and wasn’t sure my dad loved me”
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The Dreams and Specters of Scholastique Mukasonga
By Marta Figlerowicz“Every night the same nightmare interrupts my sleep.” With this sentence Scholastique Mukasonga begins her debut Cockroaches, a memoir that came out in French in 2006. That year, Mukasonga was fifty. She had been living in Normandy since 1992, wh…
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By Marlene Morgan“ ‘I said, you know, thank goodness it’s not autism,’ Jenny said, so exuberantly that it took Marion a moment to register the joke.”
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By Caleb Crain“There is a nothing sound that rooms make that is easier to hear when a room is empty.”
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Any Evening
By James Richardson“There is less and less difference / between your shadow / and the shadow inside you”
