Thanks Sylvia Plath.

"From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America ( Read more... )

One of my favorite passages from Middlesex: ( the abridged version )

There was this enlightening exchange in my English 133SO discussion the other day:

TA: Does anyone want to start us off by telling us about Black Boy?
Student 1: Well, it's about a boy...
Student 2: ...And he's black.

I started reading Birdman by Mo hayder for my English 193 (Detective Fiction) class, and it is truly disturbing. I had to stop ( Read more... )

"...Did you see that sunset? It set like it was the last time on earth."

- Fabrizio Moretti