Category: Brendon Booth-Jones
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Fragrant Stillness
Read more: Fragrant StillnessBecause of things not even rememberedwe are herelistening to the water W. S. Merwin Portugal is a popular holiday destination for people living in Europe. The cobbled, historic cities of Lisbon and Porto, the adrenaline-soaked surf destinations of Peniche and Nazaré, the idyllic beaches of the Algarve, the fresh sardines and pastel de nata, the…
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The Short Book as Lifejacket in a Sea of Words
Read more: The Short Book as Lifejacket in a Sea of WordsGo down any road far enough and you’ll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you’ll reach the sea. Dean Young — For Curtis Mumford I read fervently for a few years when I was a kid. Between the ages of about 6 and 14 I lost myself in the spell-binding worlds of Enid…
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Meeting the Board: Brendon and Sona
Read more: Meeting the Board: Brendon and SonaThe 2019-2020 Editorial Board of Writer’s Block would like to introduce themselves to you. Today, we will meet our Editors-in-Chief: Brendon Booth-Jones and Sona Simonian!
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Diary Fragments III: A Lincoln Lullaby
Read more: Diary Fragments III: A Lincoln LullabyFriends, oh my friends, I hope you’re somewhere, smiling. Just know I think about you… —Father John Misty —For J-Wow & Polly
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Diary Fragments II
Read more: Diary Fragments II—For Julz Booth-Jones Truman Capote, author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, described his diary as a ‘hieroglyphic shambles’. He said that when looking back over his old journals he was frequently baffled by entries of which he had no recollection. ‘God knows what “Thunder on Cobra Street” refers to,’ he pondered. I,…
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