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Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Until it can be said that the lit-mag community can cover a living wage for its editors and writers, then we must admit the exploitative and exclusionary natures of our economy.

Source: Megan M. Garr, “Hold the Damn Door Open: Idealism Is No Currency,” in Literary Publishing in the Twenty-first Century (edited by Travis Kurowski, Wayne Miller, and Kevin Prufer)

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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Photo credit: Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo credit: Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 4.0

 

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

I feel like the older I get, the better friends I am with myself.

Source: Ottessa Moshfegh, in conversation with Kristine McKenna (Harper’s, April 2016)

Sunday Sentence

by Erika Dreifus on
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In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

But then, almost overnight, it seemed perfectly acceptable, just as most everything in my life that had ever made me inconveniently queasy (i.e.: my parents’ grisly divorce, my absurd broken engagement in college, my temp-job career) had swiftly morphed into perfectly acceptable.

Source: Susan Perabo, “Why They Run the Way They Do” (the title story in her latest collection)