Brilliant Prose

Shameless Beauty / Toni Morison

Shameless Beauty / Toni Morison

Suddenly, there was Sweet Home rolling, rolling, rolling out before  her eyes, and although there was not a leaf on that farm that did not make her want to scream, it rolled  itself out before her in shameless beauty. It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was […]

The Healing Power of a Mother’s Saliva / Saul Bellow

The Healing Power of a Mother’s Saliva / Saul Bellow

  Leaving the cab, he thought how his mother would moisten her handkerchief at her mouth and rub his face clean. He had no business to recall this, he knew, and turned toward Grand Central in his straw hat. He was of the mature generation now, and life was  his to do something with, if […]