Tag: sean thomas dougherty

Y not you, why can't I—you in this city at closing hour, this strange going improvised ravine, summer rain among the living.  Y not towards your story, green indecipherable shadows, faces I want would, longing, to cathedral—  Y not two voices that diminuendo,...

The Italian novelist Elena Ferrante thinks of literary tradition "as a single, large depository, where anyone who wants to write goes to choose what is useful" to her, and that every ambitious writer has the duty to immerse...