Varied States of Breaking
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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...more“It” does not even “come” in the traditional sense. These primal, atavistic qualities are with us all the time, lying dormant until the right situation coaxes them forth.
...morePatrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best Creative Nonfiction and The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He pays close attention to the details of the every day, infusing humor and self-deprecation, combining […]
...moreDo novels think?
...moreIn some of my fantasies, I make a pitch for art or for truth, defend them like commodities.
...more99 Homes continues Bahrani’s tendency to take on big topics, to cut them into chewable pieces for its audience
...moreTo many a browser upon a bookstall, the name Aristotle in the title meant—nudge nudge wink wink—a book about sex. For the Public Domain Review, Mary Fissell examines Aristotle’s Masterpiece, a 17th-century sex manual that made the ancient philosopher’s name a dirty word.
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