Age of Exhausted Whoredom/ James Joyce
She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen, even though you prove that a bed in those days was as rare as a motorcar is now and that its carvings were the wonder of seven parishes. In old age she takes up with gospellers (one stayed with […]
Across America / Truman Capote
Anyone who has made the coast-to-coast journey across America, whether by train or car, has probably passed through Garden City, but it is reasonable to assume that few travelers remember the event. It seems another fair-sized town in the middle—almost the exact middle—of the continental United States. Not that the inhabitants would tolerate such […]
