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“Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquility sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.”

Excerpt From
Ulysses
James Joyce
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Something about drinking and talking provokes men to lie and tell the truth at the same time. In this novel the digressions are everything. It’s the life lived outside of the shimmer of those epiphanies that we think change us.

This is about love. Completely, beautifully, spectacularly about love.

Lively and fun; men chatting like men.

Hilarious interplay with two old chums in a Dublin restaurant. Nice to find a novel that deals with men and the complicated way they process love. The falling, nay, stumbling into it. Reading this for my trip to Ireland in a week. Should be fun!

One more story to go. I’m really impressed with Fragoza’s versatility and depth. Her stories feel all of a piece, yet they cover very different perspectives and styles. They remain mysterious and open to constant possibility. And the language is beautiful.

Marvelous surreal stories.

Bill Clark at Literarity Books turned me on to this handsome little volume of short stories. Otherwise, I may never have read it. But so far the three gems I’ve endeared myself to have been terrific stories of a side of Chicanahood that I always knew was there but somehow missed in my life. They’re tough and smart and wise and rash. Carribean Fragosa is a find.

Finely-wrought mysteries of want and loss. So beautiful. Perfectly matched with illustrations by Sarah Fisher.