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Sister Philomena

by Harry Reynolds

[ may 11 ]

"I am eight in the third grade in a Catholic school in a slum with crazy Sister Philomena and God all around in a dark land of prayer, guilt, daily Masses, a bleeding Christ crucified above the blackboard, the fear of having my face slapped or my hands beaten with a ruler"

The man in my rear view mirror

by Harry Reynolds

[ april 11 ]

"In life, the future sometimes brushes against us, like a pet dog."

June clashing

by Toby Brothers

[ october 10 ]

"I can no longer scoop her up off the ground; her body has grown too long and gangling for me to gather her as I once did"

Julia

by Harry Reynolds

[ september 10 ]

A Ruthenian story

Fixers

by Michael Griffin

[ july 10 ]

"'Money matters,' said Ajmal Naqshbandi, who met a gruesome death in April 2007, 'because these people don't have friendship. They don't know anything about it. They know you while you're working with them, but after that they don't even recognise you.'"

Granta days

by Alexis Lykiard

[ september 09 ]

"My qualifications for editing a long-established and prestigious literary organ were largely a matter of youthful enthusiasm, a love of language, and a vague yet somehow urgent desire to communicate with others through writing."

The end of certainty

by Stephen Chan

[ july 09 ]

The adventures that contributed to the writing of a book

The Holy Land

by Joe Palmer

[ april 09 ]

"Michal's folks were assured that she would be absolutely safe under the care of Dean Fallows and her corps of neutered monitors, chaperones and overseers."

The right to sleep in the Tompkins Square public library in 1935

by Harry Reynolds

[ march 09 ]

"In the winter of 1935, my uncle Lester entered the library to struggle through a hangover and he couldn't manage another block."

Sunday in the Park

by Harry Reynolds

[ february 09 ]

"When I was ten, I was a translator for my lip-reading, deaf mother..."