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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“While I’m walking to my office, down the narrow, putatively charming streets, Iliff, Albright, Bashford, lined with two story cape-cod-style houses, the bulk of these monstrosities too big for the lots, crowding out the vestigial front yards so that they are too small for any children to play catch on, let alone mount a three on three touch football game, if any children can be induced to look up from Playstation 7 or X3-Box long enough to consider an actual sport involving sticks and balls instead of VR goggles and gamer gloves, I see jogging past me a woman, attractive, freckled face, tanned clavicle, lycra T-shirt.”
“I have heard rumors about this website, but I still cannot quite believe that it exists. I am looking at what I think is a hit list.”
“It was summertime in Sydney. At about half-past two on a certain Wednesday afternoon Claire Edwards was leaning on the filing cabinet in the office of J. W. Baker’s wholesale fashion house.”