February 2012
8 posts
““Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction....”
– Kafka On The Shore
by Haruki Murakami
an aria in present tense: stories that hurt your... →
inapropos:
Vanishing Act - Lapham’s Quarterly
Read this. The story of Barbara Newhall Follett, child literary prodigy, who wrote her first story, The House without Windows, when she was 8 and published it at 13. Her father abandoned the family when she was 14. The Great Depression struck. She married…
“Volverás
a mí
porque en el cielo está escrito
que volverás
Volverás,
bien...”
“You must understand, this is one of those moments.”
“What...”
– The Tiger’s Wife. Téa Obreht.