Letters & Essays of the Day
GemStone
By Tao Lin
You also see the town constable, a banana cupcake, a large acorn, and an herbal remedy donation bin.
Letters & Essays: 1990s
Glimpses: Raymond Carver
By Chuck Kinder, William Kittredge, Jay McInerney, Leonard Michaels, Mona Simpson, Ben Sonnenberg, Douglas Unger, Tobias Wolff & Geoffrey Wolff
I was almost fifteen. I was working at my first real job at a place called the Spudnut Shop, a doughnut store, in Union Gap, Washington, June of 1955. This very good looking young man walked in with
I See a Woman May Be Made a Fool
By Ben Sonnenberg
There was a Rembrandt drawing of a lion above Sabina’s bed. When Francesca sleeps there, the lion looks down on Rose White and Briar Rose Slumbering, or some such scene by Burne-Jones. By day the Rembrandt lion