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Lucia Berlin: Amics
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When I first started to write, I was alone. My first husband had left me, I was homesick, my parents had disowned me because I had married so young and divorced. I just wrote to—to go home. It was like a place to be where I felt I was safe. And so I write to fix a reality.
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
‘You’re on another planet!’ Mrs Baker would cry as she turned off the gas or saved the bath from overflowing. ‘God only knows what you did before I came.’ ‘Well,’ Astrid would say, ‘I had Charlie, and before Charlie I lived in squalor.’
Lucy Atkins • Windmill Hill
what good wind brings you here?