by Jordan Dotson | Apr 7, 2017 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been... by Jordan Dotson | Mar 2, 2017 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
There was a game he liked that he had once played all the time. It was who could get you to cry in the fewest words? There was a line in The Three Sisters: “You mean, I’m being left behind?” But Irwin always quoted the article by Gay Talese about Joe... by Jordan Dotson | Jan 28, 2017 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
I try to summon her and all the letters with their girlish script, the pleas and admonitions, gossip of friends, endearments, exaggeration. Sometimes it seems that all that has happened since is less vital than what we were, and the luster of her eighteen years, the... by Jordan Dotson | Aug 1, 2015 | Things I wish I'd written
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with... by Jordan Dotson | Apr 27, 2014 | Things I wish I'd written
The sweater was not snug, but still. …from the aptly named All That Is, by James Salter 