One Station Away
Olaf Olafsson
“I could hear the sea. That was perhaps an hour after I became paralyzed, although I couldn’t be sure as I soon lost track of time. ”
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“At Last the Escalade”
Noy Holland
“Well worth it, well worth it, the last of the legendary glaciers and cell phone service besides. They have seen a wolf and bighorn sheep and a hundred cheeping pikas in the rocks and a pair of boxing marmots.”
They Know Not What They Do
Jussi Valtonen, trans. by Kristian London
"A man and a woman from a major corporation had visited Rebecca’s school: the same corporation that had underwritten the new wing of the gymnasium, which now bore the corporation’s name.”
Dandelions
Yasunari Kawabata, trans. Michael Emmerich
“Dandelions cover the banks of Ikuta River. They are an expression of the town’s character—Ikuta is like springtime, when the dandelions bloom. ”
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
E.F. Granell, trans. David Coulter
“A priest is only a priest, even if he knows Latin, which would be notable.”
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.”
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.”
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