Status Updates From Quicksand and Passing

“This is what Irene Redfield remembered. Chicago. August. A brilliant day...”

Always a thrill for me to find allusions that I didn’t know were present in other texts: the lines above find a new home in Tobias Wolff’s master-class short story, “Bullet in the Brain”.

Finished Quicksand. What a scathing indictment. Just brutal.

Conventional prose, but poised and interesting

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable truth that it could influence her actions, block her desires. A sordid necessity to be grappled with.”