the art of bitter tastes
Greenwich Village, after the war. Anatole Broyard ran a second-hand bookstore. I’m enjoying his memoir, Kafka Was the Rage. It’s more about sex than books*, but I’ll quote a bit about the books. “But...
Daily Archive: June 10, 2004
a black stone
From Black Stone 42 by Dale Smith (Skanky Possum): “The dishes are clean though, and I steal these moments to write, free of the day’s mundane gravity, its irritating beauty and sweetness, and hard...