“They’re out there; black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them…”
Category: Book Review
Book Review
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for…”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you…”
“On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the bourg of Meung, in which the author of the Romance of the Rose was born, appeared…”
“1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a…”
“‘Why can’t I go to summer camp, too? It’s not fair Willow gets to go have fun and I don’t’. ‘Sorry, kiddo. It doesn’t work that way…”
“My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more…”
“The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on…”
“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instance, there is a brownstone in the East…”