When you peel your potatoes put your thumb on the side here Here put some wine on the chicken while you cook it, take the chicken out and then back…
“Getting Closer” by Steven Millhauser Millhauser lets us touch the excitement of anticipation. Speaking from the voice of a young boy Jimmy who has waited all year for the pleasure…
“Extreme Solitude” by Jeffrey Eugenides http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/06/07/100607fi_fiction_eugenides?currentPage=2 She puts down the short story when she reads the line. “The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration:…
G in the flowers, by Lisa Yuskavage She cuts the stems One by one by one One by one The tight green stem breaks under her slightly calloused fingers nothing…
DeadSeee by Sigalit Landau, Israeli Artist Sigalit Landau has produced several works that explore her native Israeli landscape in a performative way, here through a video trilogy that experiments with…
Mariposa circus Take risks move inspire with your movements Stand proud
Naima by Hisham Matar in the New Yorker, January 24, 2011 In this short story, Hisham Matear pays the closest attention to the most beautiful details of relationship with others.…
Light moves into a deep spiral and moves down the way Not stuck in the spiral it makes but remembering the tight knots and moving with speed and tight curves…
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. I feel kind of intrigued with the combination of the surreal in the real since reading short stories by Gabriel…
Using fiction and science, the New Yorker considers where we’re at: “And though history has made us self-conscious in order to enhance our survival prospects, we still have deep impulses…