When he and I weren’t tangled in his sheets upstairs, his tall, lanky body wrapped around mine, he was reading treatises on physics to me, and poetry, by candlelight in ...
Is that what love is, a thought that your mind made up with its chemicals and its hokum and its voodoo magic? Continue Reading Cerulean
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Just a little over halfway through Erik Martiny’s debut novel, the protagonist-narrator, Olaf Montcocq, deep in the throes of adolescent literary self-emergence, explains how he welcomed the prospect of being ...
I always come back. Continue Reading Needle-Junkie Debt
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The first time we saw Gion was in the evening, during a light rain. And what a seductive show it put on. The pink sun diminished between buildings seemingly held ...
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of Many Faces. Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 04. Faces
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Focusing particularly on the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennnon, Frank Meola’s essay “Reading Words, Hearing Music” is about song lyrics and poetry and the difference between the two. ...
Read part one of this series here. Due to the back-and-forth nature of our trip, we gave ourselves only two days in Tokyo before we were scheduled to leave it. ...
“New Haven itself is a crime scene, the site of historic and continuing racism, segregation, and social inequality.” So wrote a scholar of the city at the turn of ...
The terminal was just a few blocks from our apartment. Often we were the first people on the bus and had it all to ourselves. These were days in the ...
The youngest of twelve children, Jo Ann Robinson was born in Culloden, Georgia. She was the first college graduate in her family, and later earned a master’s degree. In 1949, ...
As a young child, I recall tracking the aeroplane on the inflight map as it move towards Seoul Incheon International Airport, yet was always puzzled by what that country above ...
In the first of his column for Litro, debut author Polis Loui Continue Reading Chasing Sakura: 01. Occidentals
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I grew up in North Carolina and Virginia into a religious family. This seems like a redundant statement. People in the south are religious. That’s just how everyone is. God ...
According to the education minister, anyone who doesn’t know the language of Shakespeare may as well be illiterate. Twice over in my case, since I live in New York and ...
Deep inside the Gloucester Road apartment where the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante resided from 1967 until his death in 2005, the visitor finds a majestic landscape.
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How long is the flight between Havana and Miami?
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A personal essay on the love of dogs, horses, birds, goats, dogs … and of all animals. Continue Reading Animal
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Any time I found trouble as a teenager, which happened frequently, my mother warned me that I would wind up like her older sister, my Aunt Beverly.
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The careers of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima were relatively short in terms of years. Fassbinder self-destructed at the age of thirty-seven after ...
