All The Lessons You Need To Learn

The Next Day, She Was Silent. For Breakfast, She Murdered An Onion And Served It Raw.

Had She Never Been Hungry Enough To Eat A Flower? Did She Not Know That You Could Eat Daisies, Daylilies, Pansies, And Marigolds? That Hungry Enough, A Person Could Consume The Bright Faces Of Violas, Even The Stems Of Dandelions And The Bitter Hips Of Roses?

Imagine A World In Which No Writer Has Written A Literary Novel In Sixty Years. Imagine A Place Where Not A Single Person Has Read A Book That Is Truly About The Character At Its Center.

I Thought That, With So Much Current Attention Focused On The Topic Of North Korea, I Might Share What I Think Are Three Books Which Cast A Rare Light On The Elusive Realm Of North Korea.

The Urge To Create A Fictional Narrative Is A Mysterious One, And When An Idea Comes, The Writer's Sense Of What A Story Wants To Be Is Only Vaguely Visible Through The Penumbra Of Inspiration.