About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that … - Blake Butler
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that …
- Blake Butler
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou… - Blake Butler
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou…
So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple si… - Blake Butler
So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple si…
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl… - Blake Butler
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl…
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy. - Blake Butler
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.
My love is inside me where my fat was. - Blake Butler
My love is inside me where my fat was.
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one… - Blake Butler
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one…
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing… - Blake Butler
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing…
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the wor… - Blake Butler
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the wor…
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