Still Life Las Vegas
James Sie
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That’s what they say, but I’m not so sure. I’ve learned my history, and I go on repeating it. I repeat it, on average, eight times a day, five days a week.”
The Speechwriter
Barton Swaim
“About twenty of us sat in the conference room waiting for the boss to walk in. The room was warm and smelled faintly of sweat.”
Rise of the Narco, Fall of the Vocho
AN ELEGY FOR THE TWILIGHT YEARS OF MEXICO’S LATE PARTY DICTATORSHIP
All That Followed
Gabriel Urza
“This morning the front page of the Diario Vasco—for once—shares the same headline as the other Spanish newspapers.”
Raising Demons
Shirley Jackson
“Now, I do not believe that my children will pack up their bookcase and a fort of some kind had been built with dresser drawers in one corner of the room.”
Literary Los Angeles: Against not-entirely inaccurate stereotypes
Maria Wyeth, Neil Young and coyotes
The Deep, Dark Genius of Shirley Jackson
Dale Peck Revisits Her Novel, 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'
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