Christian Molenaar

Tag: joy williams

  • It Explains So Much

    ·

    The Lord was asked if He believed in reincarnation. Read more

  • She Liked the Drifting Away

    ·

    Fun typographical error from Tove Jansson’s Sun City, NYRB’s most recent book club pick. Read more

  • Unquenchable

    ·

    “He’s very close to being the shade of the walls, isn’t he, and the shade of the walls is exactly the color of the inside of Rothko’s forearm. That’s the color he always wanted as the backdrop for his paintings, you know. Pale ivory with a slight, yellowish cast, the color of Cellutex.” She pursed… Read more

  • Anamnesis

    ·

    The girl from the pharmacy who delivered Darvon to Philip K. Dick, the science fiction writer, wore a golden fish necklace. Read more

  • Odd Chap

    ·

    In the evening he went down to the bar and got a hamburger and a beer. No one spoke to him. When he went out Josie tilted her chin at him. I’m sorry, Bobby, she said. He nodded. He walked up the street. The old paving stones wet with damp. New Orleans. November 29th 1980.… Read more

Thought:

“I study your sleeping form / at the bottom of the pool / like a house I could return to,

like a head to be cradled in the arms. / Unless you are asleep I cannot make my way / across the night / and through my isolation.”

Anne Carson | “TV Men: The Sleeper”