"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. " ~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Overheard conversation
A little girl, maybe five or six years old, leaving dance class. Calls out to her friend, similarly suited in pink and black. "Do you ever confuse yourself?"
"What?" from across the parking lot.
Being tugged along by...
Monday, June 13, 2011
Writing Fiction: an Act of Willfulness?
In an interview in The New Yorker, Jhumpa Lahiri said:
"And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to...
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Charles Morgan, forgotten novelist
"There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand."
---Charles...
