Gone missing

Sunday, October 19, 2008

”The only thing that matters. He had lost the only thing that matters. All the world could die, and he wouldn’t care.”
--Peter Blauner, “Going, Going, Gone.” Two tales of misadventure and things lost and found.

What Do Women Want? A Tribute to Eudora Welty

Sunday, October 12, 2008

"Albert made a slower and softer impression. He sat motionless beside Ellie, holding his hat in his lap with both hands—a hat you were sure he had never worn. He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night.”
--Eudora Welty, “The Key”

Two tales of love, marriage, and secret desires by an American master.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Two Worlds

Sunday, October 05, 2008

"It is clear to me know that my mother was in love with him...He brought to my mother the first, and, I suspect, the only pure happiness she ever felt. I don’t think even my birth made her as happy. I was evidence of my marriage to my father, an assumed consequence of the life she had been raised to lead. But Pranab Kaku was different. He was the one totally unanticipated pleasure in her life.”
--Jhumpa Lahiri, “Hell-Heaven”

The Pulitzer Prize-winner contemplates marriage and love among Indian expatriates in America.