“However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.”
— Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review (via podencos)
Tag: alice munro
New Fiction 2021 – June
“What Is Remembered” by Alice Munro (2001)
Edge of the continent.
“Old Babes in the Wood” by Margaret Atwood (2021)
The vortex of paternal effort.
Altered Egos by Kenneth Girard (1983)
Every which way but alone.
“The Ghoul Man” by Jaime Hernandez (2002)
The niche less discovered.
“Futon” by Junji Ito (2015)
A safe place to dream.
“Wooden Spirit” by Junji Ito (2015)
The rule is it hurts no one else.
“Tomio • Red Turtleneck” by Junji Ito (2015)
You chase the tiger.
“Gentle Goodbye” by Junji Ito (2015)
A torturous self-indulgence.
If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers dev. Dead Idle Games (2021)
Drawn to the fallen.
“Are You Lost in the World Like Me?” dir. Steve Cutts (2017)
A certain point of view.
Fatherhood dir. Paul Weitz (2021)
The familial duty.
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale dir. Lasse Hallström (2009)
Attributes admired and forgotten.
The Squid and the Whale dir. Noah Baumbach (2005)
The fools whose voices rise like foam.
La Rosa de Guadalupe – “Cachito de lotería” (2018)
Credit to the spirit, blame to the flesh.
Dr. Cándido Pérez – “El premio y el tesorito” (2021)
The nurse and the housekeeper deserve better.
New Fiction 2021 – June
“What Is Remembered” by Alice Munro (2001)
Edge of the continent.
“Old Babes in the Wood” by Margaret Atwood (2021)
The vortex of paternal effort.
Altered Egos by Kenneth Girard (1983)
Every which way but alone.
“The Ghoul Man” by Jaime Hernandez (2002)
The niche less discovered.
“Futon” by Junji Ito (2015)
A safe place to dream.
“Wooden Spirit” by Junji Ito (2015)
The rule is it hurts no one else.
“Tomio • Red Turtleneck” by Junji Ito (2015)
You chase the tiger.
“Gentle Goodbye” by Junji Ito (2015)
A torturous self-indulgence.
If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers dev. Dead Idle Games (2021)
Drawn to the fallen.
“Are You Lost in the World Like Me?” dir. Steve Cutts (2017)
A certain point of view.
Fatherhood dir. Paul Weitz (2021)
The familial duty.
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale dir. Lasse Hallström (2009)
Attributes admired and forgotten.
The Squid and the Whale dir. Noah Baumbach (2005)
The fools whose voices rise like foam.
La Rosa de Guadalupe – “Cachito de lotería” (2018)
Credit to the spirit, blame to the flesh.
Dr. Cándido Pérez – “El premio y el tesorito” (2021)
The nurse and the housekeeper deserve better.