Really playing a character is about a lot more than whether you have to take your shirt off. Sometimes you do, sometimes you ...

Vladimir Sorokin, however, is alive; he is quite alive, and when I asked him how and why (along with a clutch of other ...

The story refers to the twins’ father’s participation in “the Slaughter, when all animal life was being extinguished by guns ...

My mamaw used to say, ‘I thought life was just one damned thing after another until I realized it’s the same damned thing ...

Dreams are trash. Dreams are ash. A man from Los Angeles left a small ziplock bag of his ashes to me in his will.” ...

Our seminal blonde, Lorelei Lee, comes from Little Rock, Arkansas, with a dubious backstory full of intrigue. An archetypal faux-naïf, she uses her perceived naïveté to get the better of the gentlemen ...

“The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It’s as psychological as malaria. It’s a matter of exposure.” (ticket to St. Louis and return in a first ...

Vinca is a complex little plant, and periwinkle, named for its blossoms, is an equally complex color. A subset of violet, which is a subset of purple, periwinkle denotes a precise shade that appears ...

Still gripped by the illusion of an horizon;overcome with the finality of a broken tooth;suspecting that habits are the only salvation, ...

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today i mourn my coat.my old potato.my yellow mother.my horse with buttons.my rind.today she split her skinlike a snake,refusing to excuse my backfor being bigfor being oldfor reaching toward ...

John Wick is so tired, but he can still throw a hatchet and hit a guy dead in the face he can just split other people open with anything, with a pencil because he knows what it’s like because he’s ...