April 28, 2025
- What does it take to write a cookbook?
- The heteropessimism of Sophie Kemp’s fiction
- Mitchell S. Jackson reads Shakespeare for the first time in his 40s
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“Do you feel something?” says Gérard.
“Elmore Leonard was a famous writer, but this isn’t a story about him. This is a story about my friend Elmore Leonard, who wasn’t a famous writer at all. Oh, he was a writer, my friend Elmore Leonard; he just wasn’t a famous one.”
“That spring, my father got hold of an excavator and widened the pond behind our house.”