pick"When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading." #firstlines #essays #reading #words #language #literature #marriage
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pick"When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading." #firstlines #essays #reading #words #language #literature #marriage
pick"This book was written without my knowledge." #firstlines #essays #literature #cinema #class #england #writing #family
pick"'I was assigned to your case.'" #firstlines #stories #debut #growingup #adulting #women #indiepress
pick"I remember reading Alice Walker's essay in my twenties about how a woman writer could manage to have one child, but more was difficult." #firstlines #essays #motherhood #theatre #playwrights #minimalism #storytelling
pick"There had been trouble in the upper part of the county at a honky-tonk called The Borderline, and Bobby had come by the house because he didn't want to go up there alone." #firstlines #appalachia #southernlit #debut #crime #family #land
pick"For more than twenty years now I've been making something of a specialty of writing about myself." #firstlines #essays #thirties
pick"And so when I began to go on evening walks last fall, I found Morningside Heights an easy place from which to set out into the city." #firstlines #walking #history #urbanlife #debut #heritage #contemplation #psychology
pick"The birds are making their battle cry." #firstlines #naturewriting #pacific #california #suspense #memory #biology #debut
pick"Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being." #firstlines #quantum #buddhism #interconnectedness #multipleuniverses #tsunami #japan #pnw #ecofiction
pick"Water is elemental, it's what we're made of, what we can't live with or without." #firstlines #swimming #discipline #mixedmedia #passion #love
pick"The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no." #firstlines #historicalfiction #race #necessary #nba #odyssey
pick"When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows." #firstlines #poetry #essays #genius #race #necessary
pick"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." #firstlines #ghoststories #classics
pick"When the sun finally returned to the Arctic Circle and stained the gray sky with blazing streaks of pink, Augustine was outside, waiting." #firstlines #space #tundra #exploration #connection #communication #loneliness #adventure #family
pick"Western art can boast few documentary painters of true distinction." #firstlines #translation #art #landscape
pick"I'm the best auctioneer in the world, but no one knows it because I'm a discreet sort of man." #firstlines #fallreads #translation #serialnovel
pick"I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're old." #firstlines #blessings #family #home #grace #fallreads
pick"Tears flowed out of me from a walled-off place, from another time, from a little boy who couldn't cry." #firstlines #tuckedin #bedtimereads
pick"This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country." #firstlines #bedtimereads #classics #california
Some favorites at the Brooklyn Book Festival today. #BKlovesLitsy #bkbf #getlitsy
pick"'When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets,' Papa would say, 'she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.'" #firstlines #outsiders #freak #nba
pick"While engaged in some sort of home-improvement project, I inadvertently block my exit from a dank cellar." #firstlines #mother #itsallinyourhead
pick"Although it was winter, the nearest ocean four hundred miles away, and the Tribal Weatherman asleep because of boredom, a hurricane dropped from the sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his latest nightmare." #firstlines
pick"You can get there from here, though / there's no going home." #firstlines #poetry #bedtimereads
pick"This was my last glimpse of Marrow Island before the boat pulled away: brown and green uniforms clustered on the beach, tramping up the hill to the chapel and through the trees to the cottages of Marrow Colony." #firstlines #pnw
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