Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters
Maria José Silveira, trans. Eric M. B. Becker
“It was easy to see at first glance that Lígia was a determined person with her own inner light.”
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Ultraluminous
Katherine Faw
“On Broadway and Twenty-Eighth I stand in the middle of a bike lane. I look at a bike coming at me.”
Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
“Like an early 19th-century poet, when I have melancholy moments and feel the world is too much for us and that late and soon we lay waste to our powers in getting and spending, I’m forced to pause and reflect upon my experiences with the dead and the hold they exert on our lives.”
Wonder Valley
Ivy Pochoda
“He is almost beautiful—running with the San Gabriels over one shoulder, the rise of the Hollywood Freeway as it arcs above the Pasadena Freeway over the other.”
The Ruined House
Ruby Namdar
“Sunday, ten thirty a.m. The city was still half-asleep. The clean, quiet streets gleamed in the bluish light.”
“The Animals of Cairo”
Ahmed Naji, trans. Benjamin Koerber
“He could be a sad song or a lonesome tune."
Mrs. Caliban
Rachel Ingalls
“She was sweating when she got back. It was later than she had thought and she started mixing the sauce before anything else.”
Day In, Day Out
Héctor Aguilar Camín
“I spend the next two years at the University of Iowa writing my book about Huitzilac.”
The Last Man in Europe
Dennis Glover
“Greenwich, July 1944. The sirens sounded once more, and the drum roll of the distant barrages resumed, getting louder as the firing crept closer and closer.”
The Story of Arthur Truluv
Elizabeth Berg
“In the six months since the November day that his wife, Nola, was buried, Arthur Moses has been having lunch with her every day.”
Mother of All Pigs
Malu Halasa
“No matter how often the businesses on either side of the butcher shop have been painted, the cracking asphalt, gravel, dirt, and garbage give the cramped parade of single-story buildings a uniformly grubby appearance. ”
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
J.R.R. Tolkein
“In Britain’s land beyond the seas/the wind blows ever through the trees;”
“The Knife Salesman”
Woody Skinner
“Today is not about sales. Here at Cutcorp, we’re interested in establishing long-term relationships. We’re interested in community.”
Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich
“Hide the liquor. All I have to do is fit the bottles and the ammunition into the walls of the house, wherever I’ve added the insulation.”
The Hotel Tito
Ivana Bodrozic (Trans. by Ellen Elias-Bursac)
“I don’t remember much of how it all began. I remember flashes: windows flung wide in our apartment, a stuffy summer afternoon, manic frogs from the Vuka.”
Two Poems by Tongo Eisen-Martin
From His Latest Collection Heaven is All Goodbyes
"I tore the tattoo out of my uncle’s picture and lent it to my friends one left cross at a time."
Beowulf
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
“Then up from the moor, in a veil of mist, Grendel came slouching. He bore God’s wrath.”
“Some Products of the Imagination”
Barry Gifford
“Roy did not realize he was lost until a woman hanging wash on a line in her backyard asked him what he was doing there. ”
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