Sublime

I was pulled deeper into the current of language.

When you’re young, you do so many things hoping to be noticed. The way you dress or stand, the music played loud enough to catch the attention of another person who might know a song, too. And then there are things you do as you step out into the world, the real world full of strange adults, testing out what it means to be generous or thoughtful. I

largesse

From a young age, these boys speculated on their own legacy and critics eagerly bought their stock before they matured. But the importance of women is recognized belatedly.

rivulet

The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific—and go to white writers to feel the universal.

The late reporter Alex Tizon believed that every person has an epic story that resides “somewhere in the tangle of the subject’s burden and the subject’s desire.”

and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice.

Toughness rendered tender, even beautiful.