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Letters to Vera

Vladimir Nabokov, Brian Boyd, and Olga Voronina

“My delightful, my love, my life, I don’t understand anything: how can you not be with me? I’m so infinitely used to you that I now feel myself lost and empty: without you, my soul.”


“Don’t Even Try, Sam”

William H. Gass

“Not that key.”


Soldier Girls

Helen Thorpe

“Michelle Fischer had not yet reached twenty but she already knew how to find the National Guard Armory, a low-slung, modern-looking building made of red bricks with a green metal roof. It commanded a prominent seat beside the Lloyd Expressway, the main east–west thoroughfare that split the heart of Evansville, Indiana.”


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