Fiction: “Now Walt” Fiction: “Now Walt” It’s terrible, Walt thought, the way humans chew up the world wherever they go. Gnashing through the Earth like one big chomping mouth.
Fiction: ‘Familiar Burdens’ Fiction: ‘Familiar Burdens’ And all of a sudden my dead grandpa and I were walking side-by-side down a desert highway.
A Long Way from Harbor Island A Long Way from Harbor Island Every time something major is poised to happen in my life, my wife, Caitlin, and I split for the coast. This is a deliberate action.
Fiction Pick: ‘Cincinnati Does Not Exist’ Fiction Pick: ‘Cincinnati Does Not Exist’ Jo never thought of himself as a river guy, per se, yet one morning he awoke in a canoe, floating down a body of water that clearly was a river.
Just Keep Living, Kid Just Keep Living, Kid There’s no telling how these things will play out, what his life will hold for him, because right now he’s just an idea, a bump in Caitlin’s stomach.
Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’ Fiction Pick: ‘Everything is happening at once’ America, the vast and simultaneous.
Fiction Pick: ‘Me and Konrad’ Fiction Pick: ‘Me and Konrad’ ‘Given what I’d done, and the speed with which they were pursuing me, my only reasonable course of action was to disappear into the woods.’
Fiction Pick: ‘Flower, beast or Hitler’ Fiction Pick: ‘Flower, beast or Hitler’ At that point in my life, there was a lot of — how should I put this — fumbling around in the dark.
Fiction Pick: ‘The Eternal Forking’ Fiction Pick: ‘The Eternal Forking’ ‘Small decisions, elongated over time, can be just as consequential as big ones.’
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