“The memory that stuck out from these time was of my father — a fervently religious immigrant — beginning every Sunday by waking me up at dawn for service in our all-white parish.”

Shortly before I started reading my favorite novel of 2019, my beautiful 23 year old daughter stopped communicating with me. I didn’t know it then, but it would be almost a year before I saw her again.

Ah, all those days that flowed
through my sorrows and anxieties!
In my country at this moment
another writer is experiencing them too.
Don't be afraid, my friend.

“I like non-casual reading experiences, and I notice more writers’ and their work pushing back against the instinct to simplify their work, if it serves what they’re working on. These projects seem to experiment with language and syntax beyond concerns of what’s palatable to a casual reader, and that’s exciting to me.”

What would happen if all works in all languages were universally readable? New forms of thinking, new colors for the literary palette, and ultimately, the possibility of atypical influences. To put an old trope on its head, everything has been invented, but not every invention has been discovered.

When he laughs, there is so much
of him—multiple pieces: and, of, or, if. What are our names?