Notebooks.
The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple.
You ever read American Tabloid, by James Ellroy?
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.
People say time be like a river. That’s bullshit. You can swim upstream and downstream in a river. Can you do that with time? Hell, no. Time ain’t no river. Time is a big fucking razor blade scraping...
The female memory defies explanation.
My favorite book is The Mysterious Island. I order my books from a flimsy catalog the teacher hands out to every student in the class. Emil and the Detectives. White Fang. Like that. Money is tight fo...
You want the party line or the real answer? You know what I want. His eyes shine as he shakes his head. Penn, these girls…they’re not the girls we went to school with, okay? There’s a group of girls h...
Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. I like spitting on the Rebels, he says distractedly.
For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests
When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it’s time to go home.
The faith of children is an awesome thing to behold. If only we could all be worthy of it.
Remember what Aristotle said! she cries. Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. And Horace! Horace? What did Horace say, Pithy? Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, be...
Something new every time. The sound of forest insects comes from the phone. Then the screen lights up with the green sweep of my backyard. Even from the kitchen counter, I can see Jet’s naked body sit...
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be...
The colonel had a single vice—whiskey—and he looked forward to the anesthetic burn of the Kentucky bourbon with sublime anticipation.
Into another identity. And I
Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.
Sometimes we think we are moving randomly. But random behavior is rare in humans. We are always spiraling around something, whether we see it or not, a secret center of gravity with the invisible powe...
Their belligerence in public places, their rudeness…there’s almost a pride in ignorance here. Black employees refuse to wait on white customers in stores. They treat incompetence as though it’s some k...
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