by Jordan Dotson | May 29, 2015 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Julián had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. …from a book that easily and silently (and probably temporarily) slid into no less than the #3 spot on my... by Jordan Dotson | May 19, 2015 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our...