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Contributed By: Tao Aimin
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Okla Elliott: You chose the end of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship as the focus of your novel. What drew you to that particular portion of their lives? And, more broadly speaking, what drew you to that particular literary couple as opposed to, say, Vivian and T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, etc.? R. […]
Christopher Spranger aphorizes. And he does it quite well. A few of the more famous dead aphorists are E.M. Cioran, Joseph Joubert and Karl Krauss. Christopher is their equal, and, in my humble opinion, their better. Cioran can be depressingly morbid, Joubert often verges on the flighty and Krauss gets bitterly snarky. On his part, Christopher […]
for Paul Between the ridges mirrored on water, in the cold aspect of an October dawn with the quick wind in our faces, my great uncle and I watch the kingfishers lifting off the river we have come to know in the silent places of our hearts. An eagle scans us as we pass, sentinel […]