Reid All About it
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Bamboo Palace – Christopher Kremmer
Even during the war Vientiane had been a soporific city, utterly out of touch with the war that that slowly and inexorably was destroying the old order, supplanting it with a morbid legacy. Continue reading
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Slow Days, Fast Company – Eve Babitz
The trouble was that the men who cast her thought she was beautiful, so they put her into wistful, dreamy dresses when they should have handed her a whip and got out of the way. Continue reading
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Memoirs of a Beatnik – Diane Di Prima
When Ivan split I lay awake for a long time, staring at the fire-escape and the sparse starlight through the window. Continue reading
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Girl with Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien (Or: Ode to a Bookseller)
The experience of knowing love and of being destined, one day, to remember it, is the common lot of most people. Continue reading
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One of the Wattle Birds – Jessica Anderson
Almost violently, I cry out, ‘I don’t want coffee.’ Continue reading
