Light in August begins like this:
“Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill
toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I have come from Alabama : a fur piece. All the way
from Alabama a-walking.’"
and it ends like this:
“’My,...
I often think there’s no better place to read a book than on
an airplane. Suspended between places with few distractions (especially if you
have earplugs), it’s a prime opportunity for a fictional world to take over. And
maybe...
I just finished watching the third season of My Brilliant
Friend, the HBO series adapted from the Elena Ferrante novels. In this season, the main character—also an author named Elena—has written
about how women are fashioned...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
