“Maximo had asked me whether I could serve—not everyone can, he added… Through it all, the figures in the Help Wanted ad from the Dallas Morning News beamed at me ...
Sean Beaudoin recalls a childhood spent living in the grounds of one of America’s most notorious mental institutions. Continue Reading I Remember: Fairfield Hills
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Three years in Fayetteville, and all that came with it. Continue Reading Three Years in Arkansas
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“What makes me my kind of nerd is that I’m into everything… I stepped out of the magic circle and came to terms with the fact that my rules don’t ...
“They’re powerful things, the circles that games make… I think back to the circles that I made for myself, and even now, twenty years later, I am struck by the ...
Reece Choules remembers a youth of sticker books, dead-end jobs and second chances. Continue Reading I Remember: Knuckling Down
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Litro #134 contributor Peter Vilbig recalls a drunken night ride on a motorcycle, and all that it meant. Continue Reading I Remember: Escape Velocities
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Tomorrow is May 25th, otherwise known as Towel Day: a chance to celebrate the life of Douglas Adams. Here, Jon Canter, who knew Adams better than most (they were flatmates), ...
Philip Davis, editor of The Reader Magazine, puts Shakespeare in an fMRI and watches the brain light up, its pathways shift. Continue Reading I Remember: “From the Table ...
Novelist Kevin Brockmeier has written the second instalment in Litro’s new series of miniature memoir. He’s nine or ten, and he’s looking down on traffic. Continue Reading I ...
I Remember is a new regular feature at Litro — miniature memoir. This week Sunil Shanbag recalls how the plays of Shakespeare worked their way into his life. ...
“Something told me that the lump on my arm wasn’t to be ignored. Rubbing my finger across the lump, I was certain there was a ball of something under my ...
“It’s a demanding love, London, draining its people with long, dusty streets and cramped buses. This isn’t a place for flowers, it’s a place that tests the human spirit.” ...
In this extract from his forthcoming book Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again, Ben Tanzer takes one last adventure into the Italian unknown. Continue ...
“There’s a first time for everything,” I said, over and over again, shaking so much I could barely feel each finger from the others. “There’s a first time for everything,” ...
“He would lean forward, absorbed in the tangled limbs of Hulk Hogan and Haku… He knew there was no chance that the Hulkster would lose. But it didn’t matter. That’s ...
“I couldn’t move home, but maybe I could repay some of their kindness. I knew their stories of Christmas gifts that never arrived, and I knew their current interests. I ...
“I place the incense sticks on the earth in front of each trunk. Normally, I’d count to make sure that no tree gets any more or less. But ...
“For the best retrospectives on professional tennis tournaments, I would usually turn to my grandmother.” Continue Reading Family: Conversations with Nana
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“This is one of the beauties of the place that I call home sometimes in my mind: that you can buy a dozen organic eggs at the long polished wood ...
