Eli S. Evans: Is That It

It is vain to try to write unless you feel strong in the knees...

At the time of the dooms in the third quarter of the Reaper’s Moon, in the island of Britain...

There’s something to value about a completely unmediated and uncurated encounter with old books: a chance to access for yourself the raw material of history...

On any given day, walking around the yard, one was almost certain to hear one prisoner ask another, “Hey, man, got any gurps?” I knew it had something to do with drugs...

If there is ever to be a next generation, we need one another, flawed as we are...

Who or what is Peter Pan? Peter stands for a deep psychological desire in all of us to return to childhood and escape into an earlier, freer state of being...

Don’t we go to literature to find the logic that might displace the absurdity of our lives?

This new world of ours, structured by the internet, is unrelentingly violent, as it is inimical to human freedom and human thriving...

Tonight I walked under the stars through the snow & stopped & looked at my far sparklers & heard the voice of the wind so slight & pure & deep as if it were the sound of the stars themselves revolving...

Esbjerg is a seaport town in Denmark. In the story, it’s presented as an obscure place...

There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness...

Through all those years of journal entries, Lucy Maud Montgomery was always intelligent, often funny and never boring. I wanted to know what she’d say next...

If rebirth does actually happen, I will be reborn as an amoeba or a snail...

Especially for antiquarian and other independent booksellers, there exists a tension between sharing knowledge and running a business...

Sons and Lovers emerged with astonishing vividness, like an island from off which the mist has suddenly lifted...

The metaphor retains the paradoxical power to unveil the truth by veiling it...

The novel is an extremely flexible form. It can come out in countless shapes, include infinite content, and end up almost any length...