Repton Park, Woodford Green, London. It was Christmastime and The Virgin Active sign was filled-in with tinsel. Glass barriers slid open and a track-suited...
On Queer Ancestors, Stubbornness, and Living “Close to the Knives”: A conversation with Hesse Phillips’ about their debut novel, Lightborne
Famed poet and playwright Christopher...
In November 2011, four years after her initial diagnosis, my 64-year-old sister Ellie was dying of ovarian cancer. As I’d promised months earlier, I...
Please don’t stand me up again
++Dad. Not tonight — it’s the first
++++sound sleep in weeks. I’m waiting
++in the blue pickup, my hair washed
+++++and fragrant...
Writers, especially those just starting out, should read omnivorously, insatiably, constantly, selfishly, and slowly. So slowly that the flow and rhythms of the prose...
