Fiction
Blindness
By Cyril WongWhat he described only meant that he knew nothing about actual causes. Misfortune is your real inheritance, silent as calculating crows alighting upon that high wire of your future.
Chapters 5 & 6 from
The Solitary Twin
By Harry Mathews
Berenice had been sincere in saying she “had to go to bed,” but it was not, as one might expect, because of fatigue. When Andreas eventually followed her upstairs, he found her wide awake and eager to chat.
inSerial: part fifteen
Delusions of Being Observed
By Lewis Warsh
Dear Robert, I’m sorry to be communicating with you in this way instead of talking to you in person or even on the phone, but I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, our relationship, which has lasted for more than a year. As you know. Sometimes it feels much longer—whole decades—and sometimes the shortest of intervals have passed since that fateful day we met on the B train.
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #1: a thousand flaming pen-nibs
By Tom MotleyT. Motley is serializing “Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel” in the Brooklyn Rail, helped by a grant from the Spillway Fund, spillwayfund.org
In Conversation
New Routes in Fiction:
Julie Lekstrom Himes with Alec Niedenthal
Mikhail and Margarita is a book equally noteworthy for its addicting plot as it is for the serious questions it asks about the writer’s relation to the state.
