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Bookflix · Read Between Wines
On Reading Between Wines
And they drank dark wine, and listened to the sea for a long time, until the words began to find them.
Bookflix · Editorial
Bring Your Dogs and Your Spears. Wear Something Soft. Call Your Mom.
On unicorn hunting, five hundred years of embroidery, and why we're not especially worried about the future of books.
Bookflix · Observations
Homer's Wine-Dark Sea
Everyone's buying the Odyssey again, so I reread it — and found I couldn't see it the way I did at seventeen. A short voyage into why the Greeks called the sea wine-dark and never once called it blue, what that has to do with the colors I've stopped noticing, and why the same books keep finding us at different tides.
Bookflix · Essay
This Is a Day I Imagined
Fragments of a reading of Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear. Loose pieces, just to have the flavour. The whole thing runs in the fall issue, September.
Bookflix · Essay
The Most Honest Orgasm in Literature
Everyone’s written about what food symbolizes in literature — power, love, memory, all the usual suspects. Fewer people have written about what happens when characters part ways with that food. Which, it turns out, is the more interesting half.
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THE GODFATHER’S LAST SUPPER
Symbolism Analysis in the Restaurant Hit
Bookflix · Opinion