Category: how to win the lottery

“i said that’s not what my father taught me. my father said there were two things in this world that would never change: the mountains and the sea.”

we talk to jeff wood, author of the glacier, about ohio literature, two dollar radio, and david lynch’s twin peaks part 8.

“houses destroy and rebuild themselves in a repeating cycle of self-annihilation and regeneration. the neighborhood crumbles and reconstructs in a looping circuit of collapse and assembly, over and over and over again—”

“a churning violet cylinder of smoke, a thousand feet tall and growing with no compromise to its proportions, rose off forty smoldering broadleaf acres on a windless morning on the indian plateaus. the second millennium had seventy days left to it.”

“those are stories my mother tells. neither you nor i have time for this. we’re looking for worms, something very much like worms, and the exact moment when they touch your body for the first time.”

we talk to deb olin unferth, author of barn 8, about heist stories, teaching literature, and chickens.