Archive For April 8, 2018
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. – John Cheever You should write more fiction, someone suggested. I was riding in the back of a big black Bentley convertible with Sonny & Cher. We…
Original title: “The Rouse That Roared.” Which you just know I didn’t write. Plenty of roaring later. I was happier before all the progress. Back when a young runner could go out on a Sunday morning, stores were closed and the churches open and everybody else must’ve been sleeping and you could run right up…