The Other Americans by Laila Lalami consists of about 65 short chapters each named after a character, each of whom speaks in first person. Chapter headings repeat, which is a clever way to gauge the importance of each character in the structure of the story.
Fox Abandon; The Space Between; The Last House; Release
There’s a lot to be said for being able to appreciate the uncertain space between winter and spring, an unusually long space this year, after an unending winter.
Fitbit, Magnets, and Uranium Enrichment
The city that disappears in the fog. You can look down on it from here, where the bay meets the ocean; see the red tube running across the sky, into the vein of society, the dripping sun setting between the towers.
Dave Egger’s The Parade
We are in a third world country that has been devastated by civil war. Its state is barely functional and beyond the capital there is societal chaos as well as signs of life renewing itself. Two contractors are assigned by a vaporous multinational to build a highway from the more developed north, where the capital is, to the entropic southland.
Naked Graduation; Prolepsis; Public, Urban; Supervisor; Unfortunate Conflict of Interest
Instead of draped in yards of rented, slick Visqueen, we would arrive here naked, marching barefoot, each roll and fold of us with the exception perhaps of the tams with their exuberant dancing tassels and the brilliant plumage of hoods.
dark feathered birds; foreign alphabet in the guest house
small town frenzied charade a story for every question lock your name inside when you whisper the verbs are guilty of the same flawed thinking thin dreams and a full moon