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Bill Hsu Bill Hsu said: " I'm a huge fan of Joy Williams' earlier books (Honored Guest, yes!), but am embarrassed to admit that her more recent work have not done it for me. But "Stuff" is a hilarious piece about a man visiting his mother in a care home to break the news that ...more "

 
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“But this is not that kind of story, the kind meant to explain things. It simply tells things as they are, and as you know there is no explanation for how things are, at least none that would make any difference and allow them to be something else.”
Brian Evenson, Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories

Aleksandar Hemon
“If you live long enough, you learn that nothing has ever been, nor will it ever be, the way it used to be.”
Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All That It Holds: A Novel

Kevin Killian
“I kept thinking, I'm wearing way too many clothes! And I fled. Finally night fell and I looked up at the moon that shone over Morningside Heights, its white soft beam so limpid, full of the poetry of Shakespeare and the Caribbean and George Eliot --- the antithesis I suppose of the hot lights I had grown to need. How relaxed, how relieved I now felt, in the white moonlight. Relieved of the chore of playing with the big boys. My clothes seemed to fit again, I became myself. The moon's fleecy lambency corralled my pieces and re-linked us, we joined "hands" as it were, and sang and danced in a circle, very Joseph Campbell, "me" regnant, manhood ceremonial. Birth of the hero. I became Kevin Killian. Did I make a mistake?”
Kevin Killian, Fascination: Memoirs

Robert Irwin
“Magic is absurd. It is a system of thinking that does not work and does not get one anywhere," said the friar.

"It works, but it does not get one anywhere," said Vance.

"But it is very beautiful. Magic is an art that pleases the eye and the ear," said Bulbul.”
Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nightmare

James Tate
“Everything is relevant. I call it loving.”
James Tate

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