[…] the area becoming a world art center with positive new kinds of art supercede “Pop,” “Op,” “ auto-destructive art,” and what-not. Among those who were at that first meeting there was quite a variety […]
[…] young women straighten up, and I regard it as your duty too. I want you to extend full library privileges to these young women, all seven of them, and I’m not going to leave […]
[…] to the storehouse?” Mert looked up. His rheumy eyes found Brock’s face. “My dance card ain’t that full.” *** “Mormon missionaries, no shit!” Clive Monson said. He began a spiky, pot-holed narrative. “My people […]
[…] on the bench, and gazed abroad upon the scurrying square and the encircling streets filled with surging autos and motorcycles. “Then I must do it myself,” she said. “It would be better coming from […]
[…] fasting or prayer or asterisks or excuses. The faith in the Hermana’s caramel eyes forbids it. ‘ Por favor/ she pleads. ‘Heal my baby.’ “The Elders are gone and there is not time anyway […]
[…] of my marriage, and so far it’s lasted twelve whole years. Tonight, my husband’s buff-colored Afro springs full-blown above the evening paper. He’s faceless. I’m staring out the dark window, wondering why I can’t […]
[…] would impose order on narrative chaos. What he saw when he looked up was an evening class full of undergraduate literati—the more serious showing signs of neurosis, the less earnest having at least adopted […]
[…] The words were beginning to wiggle and shake, threatening to break free. Steven held a white page full of text-based larvae that seemed on the verge of spilling out onto the bed of the […]
[…] God and his children by officiating in sacred rituals. In the temple, women are thus functioning as de facto priestesses without what we (perhaps incorrectly?) consider a necessity—ordination. Should this oversight be corrected? Since […]
[…] into the big church house to do it. On a weekday it seemed especially large, empty and full of echoes. I remember that Aunt Sarah’s Frances went with me one time for moral support. […]