gary weiner

“friend’s adoration. How had he been so oblivious? Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it. Cyrus understood that now, and stepped.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Unmitigated Blackness is essays passing for fiction.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout

“Wherever you are, the richness and complexity and inexhaustible, unplumbable thereness of the whole rushes in through your eyes and your ears and your nose and across your skin. Every single thing around you is right there and so are you. The teeming world is right there, and all of it is neither good nor bad, it just is.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“Australians in general are pretty casual about traveling. If you grow up there, you basically get trained in long-haul flights—fifteen hours, twenty-four—it’s what we’re used to. For us, eight hours across the Atlantic seems like a doddle.”
― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book