by Jeremy Collins | Aug 2, 2022 | Word for Word
Photo by Ryan Loughlin on Unsplash On Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: It is August 1972 and Hunter S. Thompson wants to go for a swim. After eight months of covering the presidential campaign, crisscrossing the country, and faced with the prospect of young...
by Jeremy Collins | Aug 2, 2022 | Word for Word
Toward the end of Tobias Wolff’s short story, “Bullet in the Brain,” Anders, the doomed book critic, recalls a time before everything reminded him of something else. The story’s magic resides in Wolff naming what Anders does not recall. The list of seventeen items...