Jim Deatherage,

See this thing. See inside what spins without purchase. Close your eye. Absolutely no salesmen will call. Relax. Lie back. I want nothing from you. Lie back. Relax. Quality soil washes right out. Lie back. Open. Face directions. Look. Listen. Use ears I’d be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines’ noise. Jesus,

Donald Antrim,

Flannery

The low gear in which plot stuff proceeds in sections 1 and 2 is intentional.”

Wealthy eras usually repair to realism,

The new rebels might be the ones willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “how banal.”

hated the acclaimed Magnolia, which he found pretentious and hollow, “100% gradschoolish in a bad way.”

“If words are all we have as world and god, we must treat them with care and rigor: we must worship.”